Live coverage from COP21 in Paris,as nearly 200 governments prepare to officially adopt a climate change deal on how to carve carbon emissions post-2020 8.32pm GMTIm calling it a night for live coverage here in Paris, where 195 governments have agreed the world’s first universal climate deal. It’s been hailed as historic, and transformative,momentous. “Today we celebrate, tomorrow we have to act, and ” says the EU climate chief,Miguel Arias Cañete. 8.14pm GMTMiguel Arias Canete, the EU’s climate commissioner, and said: “This is a success for the tall ambition coalition”,referring to a group of more than 100 developed and developing nations pulled together by the EU and the leaders of some of the small island states, and those most vulnerable to climate change.“This was the final chance [for the UN process], or ” he added,“and we have taken it.”He said that, with the agreement in place, or the most significant work now needed to be done. “Now it is approximately implementation. We need to have the policies. The EU has policies,and everyone needs to have policies [to put the agreement into practice].”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com