Nah I don’t see any real caving here or maybe I missed it. This really crappy article focussed on lots of emotion and then they act like finally they defeated the big bad USA enviro-monster but what the hell did they agree to do? Meet again later? Did I miss something other than a lot of anti-USA crowing about exactly what?
What you missed is that this is about politics not science. In politics perception is reality, and the perceptions of the international jerkwaters speak for themselves. Maybe it is just kicking the can down the road, as others have suggested, but that still means you have joined the game after having first refused to play.