sat, 12 jan 2015, 19:28
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Binding treaty on climate change adopted

Paris –

The almost two hundred participants at the UN climate summit in Paris Saturday a binding climate deal is adopted. After more than one and a half week of meetings, they agreed. The treaty is aimed at the emissions of greenhouse gases and the warming of the earth to reduce. All participating countries must comply with the objectives in the treaty.

After the announcement that the treaty was adopted, burst into the room a minutes applause and cheers los. There was also space for a touch. Conference chair Laurent Fabius interrupted the cheering for the historic agreement to ratify with a hammering. ,,They told me that I had a blow with the hammer had to give. And it is but a little hammering, but it takes something big to stand,” joked Fabius.

Conference chair Laurent Fabius with his hammering
Photo: AFP

Main points in the treaty are: limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees, 1.5 degree as the rate, the substantial reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases and invest in poor countries who struggle to have the climate to pick up.

The French president François Hollande spoke before Saturday, when the draft was published, of a historic agreement. According to conference chair Fabius leads the treaty a turning point in the use of fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal. Both companies and governments need to gradually switch to alternative energy sources.