Landmark Climate-Change Agreement Hailed as ‘Leap for Mankind’
- Nations pledge to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius
- Deal sets framework for global warming action for decades
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The world’s nations took the boldest steps yet to stem climate change, adopting an historic package of measures to limit fossil-fuel pollution and establish a mechanism to step up the reductions for decades.
After two weeks of intense negotiations overseen by the United Nations, envoys from 195 nations in Paris on Saturday endorsed a program that also set an ambitious goal to curb temperature increases and set up ways to measure and verify emissions everywhere.