“Hearing no objection, it is so decided,” Al Jaber said, as delegates looked around the room, then applauded, hugged and rose to their feet. Al Jaber, an Emirati oil executive whose appointment as COP president had triggered intense backlash, relished the moment, smiling and giving a soaring address that described a “new mind-set” to climate solutions, secured by compromise and inclusivity, after meetings at “3am and 4am and 5am.” Then he yielded the floor to the island nation of Samoa. “Thank you, Mr. President,” said Anne Rasmussen, an official with Samoa’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. She said her...