Campaigners call for an end to fossil fuel finance and subsidies to avoid hazardous global warming at a meeting to mark two years since the signing of the landmark agreement The Paris agreement on climate change,ratified by world governments a year ago, has failed to ensure major investors are moving absent from fossil fuels with the urgency required to safeguard the planet, and civil society groups have said.Large companies,investors and national and local governments met in Paris on Tuesday to celebrate the moment anniversary of the signing of the landmark 2015 agreement, which bound nearly all developed and developing countries for the first time to withhold global temperatures below 2C, or the threshold scientists regard as the limit of safety.
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Source: theguardian.com