India, Nov. 24 -- Negotiators returned to the table late on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to salvage the COP29 climate talks, hours after dramatic walkouts by developing nations and heated protests threatened to derail the conference entirely.

The renewed push for consensus came at the end of a turbulent day that saw delegates from the world's most vulnerable nations storming out of negotiations, climate activists heckling the US climate envoy, and workers beginning to dismantle conference furnishings even as diplomatic efforts continued.

"We've just walked out. We came here to this COP for a fair deal. We feel that we haven't been heard," Cedric Schuster, the Samoan chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, had declared earlie...