Final Draft global climate change agreement reached at UN COP21 summit
Posted Dec 12, 2015 8:18 am.
Last Updated Dec 12, 2015 10:29 am.
This article is more than 5 years old.
A final draft text has been reached at the United Nation’s summit on climate change.
The document will be translated into the U.N.’s six official languages, and given to the delegates for examination.
For almost two weeks, officials of more than 190 countries been working in Paris to reach an agreement to trim the carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
A French official says the new accord to be presented to negotiators at U.N. talks on Saturday is about 31 pages. That’s about seven pages shorter than a previous draft, suggesting competing options may have been deleted.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the draft had not been released yet.
Anticipation was building in the conference centre outside Paris, culminating the four-year effort to produce the first international pact asking all countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
