How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal




 
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How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal
 
December 14th, 2015  
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How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal
By Richard Valdmanis and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gamble: another collapse could the end world’s ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change.




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