Here are links to 38 articles from news sources around the world announcing that the United Nations made historic agreements yesterday in Paris to reduce greenhouse gas emissions!
With close to 200 countries agreeing to limit emissions and report on outputs to strive towards a balance of carbon sources and sinks, one of the key parts is promoting sustainable development and a more sustainable planet! This agreement will likely create huge incentives promoting clean energy investments.
Bloomberg - 5 hours ago
Envoys to the United Nations climate talks handed down a 31-page document on Saturday outlining their boldest steps yet to rein in global warming. Here are the key points of the text, along with comment on why the decisions made in Paris matter: ...
New York Times - 8 hours ago
Traditionally, such pacts have required developed economies like the United States to take action to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but they have exempted developing countries like China and India from such obligations. The accord, which United ...
UN News Centre - 14 hours ago
For the first time today, 195 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – pledged to curb emissions, strengthen resilience and joined to take common climateaction. This followed two weeks of tireless negotiations at the United ...
Sydney Morning Herald - 7 hours ago
The deal struck at United Nations climate talks requires an overhaul of historic proportions for energy policies worldwide and a huge investment in cleaning up the pollution now damaging the Earth's atmosphere. What was once unthinkable has now become ...
New York Times - Dec 11, 2015
LE BOURGET, France — After almost two weeks of marathon negotiations, the lines for food and coffee on Friday night snaked through the temporary tent city here that has been home to the globalclimate talks. People made final bets in a five-euro pool ...
Sydney Morning Herald - 16 hours ago
Nearly 200 countries have struck a landmark grand bargain on climate change, agreeing for the first time to take action to curb greenhouse gas emissions. After two weeks of grinding negotiations in Paris, nations signed off on the new deal that aims to ...
Refinery29 - 16 hours ago
After more than seven years of negotiating, more than 190 countries have agreed on a climatechange agreement designed to stop the onslaught of global warming. The landmark agreement was reached during the United Nations' COP21 Climate Change ...
The Atlantic - 18 hours ago
Christiana Figueres, the UN's lead climate change negotiator and the impresario of Paris, told The New Yorker earlier this year that, “If anyone comes to Paris and has a eureka moment—'Oh, my God, the [national cutbacks] do not take us to two degrees!
Bustle - 11 hours ago
On Saturday, the United Nations finalized the biggest international agreement on climate change ever, an accord signed onto by representatives of nearly 200 countries. It's been a rare cause for celebration by environmentalist groups — even though it ...
The Australian Financial Review - 7 hours ago
An evolution in the private sector is crucial, because despite all the powerful language of the Paris agreement, it does not immediately oblige countries to do anything more than what is contained in their already released climate pledges, or "Intended ...
The Tico Times - Dec 12, 2015
With 2015 forecast to be the hottest year on record, world leaders and scientists have warned the accord is vital for capping rising temperatures and averting the most catastrophic consequences ofclimate change. If climate change goes unabated ...
NEWS.com.au - 14 hours ago
The Paris talks have largely been free of the fierce arguments that plagued previous UN climateconferences. Prior to the session, China's top negotiator Gao Feng said “there is hope today” for a final pact, while Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony ...
Yahoo News - 20 hours ago
Nations most vulnerable to climate change lobbied hard for wording in the Paris pact to limit warming to 1.5C, warning otherwise rising seas would wipe out low-lying island nations and coastal areas. Big polluters, such as China, India and oil ...
The Australian Financial Review - 14 hours ago
The landmark United Nations climate agreement has opened the way for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to continue with subtle shifts in Australia's climate change policies despite his promises toclimate change sceptics during his leadership coup to ...
Stuff.co.nz - 15 hours ago
A recent review by the UN climate body found that when temperatures do rise above 1.5C, polar regions, high mountains, tropics and low-lying coastal regions will be most in the gun. In Africa, the ability to grow food will be hit, particularly for the ...
Stuff.co.nz - 15 hours ago
The rebuilding of confidence to get to this moment in the United Nations climate negotiations has been slow, but has been aided by external factors including the plunging cost of non-fossil fuel energy and broadening commitments from business and other ...
NDTV - 10 hours ago
Envoys from nearly 200 nations on December 12 adopted to cheers and tears a historic accord to stop global warming, which threatens humanity with rising seas and worsening droughts, floods and storms. (AFP). Le Bourget, France: Envoys from nearly 200 ...
Sydney Morning Herald - Dec 12, 2015
An historic global deal to limit and tackle climate change appears imminent after a final draft agreement has been completed at the United Nations conference in Paris. After nearly a fortnight of negotiations, and several days in which exhausted ...
Manila Bulletin - 9 hours ago
UNITED NATIONS — UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft on Saturday welcomed the adoption of Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, saying that “this agreement reaffirms the value of multilateralism in addressing global challenges.”.
USA TODAY - 14 hours ago
To that end, the agreement formally asks the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. climate science and research body, to issue a special report in 2018 detailing steps needed to reach the 2- and 1.5-degree Celsius targets. The ...
CNN - 18 hours ago
... 'The world needs a success.'" Negotiators took a key step December 5 with the release of a draft agreement that has been posted online by the United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change. That draft has been modified throughout the week.
FRANCE 24 - Dec 12, 2015
Negotiators at the U.N.-sponsored climate summit in Paris have come up with a draft agreement that will be presented to ministers at 10:30 GMT, a French government source said on Saturday. "There is a draft agreement," the source said. "It is being ...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters - 7 hours ago
NEW YORK | PARIS (IDN) - Ban Ki-moon has reason to be sure that when he completes his second term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations end of December 2016, he would have left behind a proud legacy.Climate change has been “one of the ...
Sydney Morning Herald - Dec 12, 2015
The world is on the cusp of an historical agreement to tackle climate change after the French organisers of the Paris summit released the final wording of a deal, mapping out compromises on the key disputes that had divided countries. Almost 200 ...
Newser - 17 hours ago
Activists dressed like animals stage a die in during a demonstration near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Saturday, Dec.12, 2015 during the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. As organizers... (Associated Press) ...
Los Angeles Times - 10 hours ago
The agreement reflects the first universal environmental accord since signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change began holding meetings around the world in the early 1990s. In 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, only developed ...
Investor's Business Daily - Dec 11, 2015
In the days leading up to the 21st session of the Conference of Parties to the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, hardly a living person could avoid hearing the desperate talk about the Paris summit being our last chance to save the world ...
Bustle - 20 hours ago
Despite the deadly terror attacks that threatened to put a halt to U.N. climate talks, world leaders gathered in Paris last week, determined to begin discussions over new global policy that would help usher in a new era of renewable energy and try to ...
Channel News Asia - Dec 12, 2015
French President Francois Hollande (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (centre) andUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrive for a statement at the COP21 ClimateConference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on Dec 12, 2015. (Photo: ...
Daily Mail - Dec 11, 2015
The UN's climate talks in Paris are to overrun into Saturday as disputes between countries have caused delays. Campaigners outside the conference have increased attempts to put pressure on world leaders at the talks with protests, including drawing a ...
Shanghai Daily (subscription) - 13 hours ago
"This historic agreement sends a signal of certainty about the global economy's low carbon future, in the same way as we did for Scotland through our world-leading climate legislation in 2009. We want to avoid the worst impacts ofclimate change ...
BBC News - 18 hours ago
A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at theclimate change summit in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations. The pact is the first to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions. The ...
The Local.fr - 20 hours ago
Envoys from 195 nations zeroed in Saturday on a historic climate rescue pact after host France released a final draft for ministers to peruse and adopt. France delivers 'historic' climate-rescue accord (12 Dec 15); Paris climate summit talks go into ...
CleanTechnica - Dec 11, 2015
Published by the United Nations Environment Programme on Thursday — global Human Rights Day — in Paris at the United Nations COP21 climate negotiations, the new report, ClimateChange and Human Rights, aims to provide “a comprehensive study” ...
The Guardian - 13 hours ago
The sight of grinning delegates, linking arms and laughing, at the end of last night's Paris climatetalks, represents a rare moment of cheer in the normally gloomy business of negotiating carbon emission deals. In 2009 , those talks ended in grim ...
Telegraph.co.uk - 5 hours ago
"1.5 Degrees" in white neon is lit on the Eiffel Tower in the French capital, as the COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris Photo: AFP. In order to actually limit warming to that level, the ...
Climate Home - 15 hours ago
“For the first time in history, the whole world has made a public commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deal with the impacts of climate change. Although different countries will move at different speeds, the transition to a low carbon ...
Huffington Post UK - 3 hours ago
Some 196 Countries have agreed a new international deal to tackle climate change following marathon United Nations talks in Paris. Delegates approved the historic agreement on Saturday, with the deal aiming to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas ...
