Climate deal \\\'won\\\'t be perfect\\\'

With 19 months to go until the deadline for a new, global pact on climate change, the United States' top negotiator cautioned Thursday against unrealistic expectations, saying the deal "won't be perfect".
"It is important that our expectations be ambitious, and also grounded in reality," special envoy Todd Stern told journalists in Paris, where he met officials of the French government, who will host the 2015 meeting where the agreement must be signed.
"I'm sure it won't be perfect," he added. "This is a difficult negotiation. There's190-plus countries... it is hard to get agreement from all countries on anything."
Expectations that do not take realpolitik into account "can just lead to disappointment", said the envoy, who has for five years led the US negotiating team in the notoriously belligerent global talks, according to AFP.