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196 countries met in Paris to negotiate a new global agreement for fighting climate change. The pact sealed here, after negotiations under the existing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, promises to put in place a new set of globally agreed rules by which countries will collaborate on reducing emissions and adapting to climate change over coming decades.

The agreement promises to keep the rise of global temperature far below two degrees Celsius by the turn of the century. It has also been agreed that steps will be taken To ensure global emissions peak as soon as possible, with developed countries doing so before others. The package of decisions that all 196 countries have agreed to also involves ensuring that net greenhouse gas emissions become zero in the second half this century.

196 countries agree to the Paris agreement on climate change

Resets the framework by which world will move away from fossil fuels before 2100

The skeleton of the Paris agreement

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Interview with the chairperson of the G77 and China group
US wants developing nations to also share finance costs

Developing world says offer breaching UN framework a delay tactic
Developing countries unite on CBDR principle

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134 developing countries warn of collapse in Paris if developed countries break convention over finance

The G77 group reminded that under UNFCCC, developed countries are obliged to provide financial resources to all developing countries

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Opinion

Sunil Sethi: Appeasing the climate gods

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Sunita Narain: Expectations from Paris

The Paris agreement must accept that all countries have the right to development and that this requires equitable sharing of the global carbon ...
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The underlying issue is distribution, not scarcity, of a global natural resource