Paris Climate Agreement
December 12, 2015
After two weeks of negotiations and decades of failure, 196 countries agreed to limit warming to well below two degrees Celsius. The pact relied on voluntary national pledges and ratchet mechanisms rather than enforcement. Diplomats wept and applauded in Le Bourget. Whether they had saved the planet remained to be seen.
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