Landmark Agreement on Climate Is Reached in Paris to Cap Warming

Climate negotiators meeting in Paris have achieved a deal that could change the world. The Paris Agreement commits the international community to capping global warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C.” To achieve that, the agreement requires the world to “reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible” and “to undertake rapid reductions thereafter, in accordance with best available science.” The intention is to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century. “This agreement is a turning point,” said Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Center.
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