The UN Climate Talks in Lima, Peru, went beyond its December 1-12 timetable and is now on overtime because of a deadlock, following a major disagreement between China and the U.S.

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Activists wearing masks depicting (L to R) U.S. President Barack Obama, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, China's President Xi Jinping, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonstrate to demand cuts in global emissions during the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 20 in Lima December 12, 2014. The two-week long United Nations climate summit opened on December 1 in Lima, with experts and analysts from around the world gathering to discuss melting glaciers and extreme weather patterns. Protesters also urged international leaders to reach an agreement at the Paris Conference 2015, a deal to drive climate action beyond 2020. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

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Activists wearing masks depicting (L to R) U.S. President Barack Obama, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, China's President Xi Jinping, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonstrate to demand cuts in global emissions during the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 20 in Lima December 12, 2014. The two-week long United Nations climate summit opened on December 1 in Lima, with experts and analysts from around the world gathering to discuss melting glaciers and extreme weather patterns. Protesters also urged international leaders to reach an agreement at the Paris Conference 2015, a deal to drive climate action beyond 2020. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

 Beijing insisted that the heavier burden must be on richer countries that burn the bulk of fossil fuels which cause greenhouse gas effect, reports ABC.

Industrialized nations such as Australia and the U.S. want that developing nations such as China and India not be treated differently when it comes to cutting their emission targets as they are now considered under current agreements.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop finds the different treatment as misleading and improper. Because of the deadlock, Bishop believes the issue will remain unresolved until the next round of negotiations in February 2015.

The Peru meeting is supposed to iron out details of pledges by 190 countries on how they would tackle climate change in March 2015 slated to be held in Paris.

Todd Stern, the climate change representative of the U.S., encouraged all delegates to accept the compromise agreement. Failure to do so would threaten the Paris summit and place in doubt the ability of UN to address climate change.

"We have no time for lengthy new negotiations, and I think we all know that," ABC quotes Stern, who warns, "The hour glass is running down."

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, president of the Peru meeting, tried to break the deadlock by proposing a new draft agreement, which China and other developing nations rejected because it weakened a key element of the 1992 climate change convention that there should be common but differentiated responsibility.

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