195 world nations own agreed to disregard climate science denial and cut carbon pollution as much as possible
In stark contrast to the shortcomings of previous international climate negotiations, the Paris COP21 talks own ended with an agreement stronger than most expected. Graham Readfearn summarized the agreement for The Guardian.
The guts of the agreement hang off the so-called “long-term goal” that commits nearly 200 countries to hold the global average temperature to “well below 2°C” above pre-industrial levels and to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C”.
The long-term goal also states that “in accordance with best available science that “in the second half of this century” the world should acquire to a point where the net emissions of greenhouse gases should be zero.
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Source: theguardian.com