World leaders from nearly 200 countries have signed a historic agreement to fight global climate change. The agreement came after twelve days of talks between the leaders at the 21st Conference in Paris, France.
As part of the Paris agreement, the countries said they’d cut down on pollution. However, according to the terms of the deal, the countries that don’t do this won’t be fined. Instead, the document is meant to show governments around the world are willing to work together to fight global warming.
World leaders have met many times to discuss climate change. But the 21st Conference of Paris, or COP21, which began on November 30, 2015, was the first time that they had agreed on a global, legal pact(协议).
Before the conference, each nation was asked to create plans on how to reach the shared goal. The pact that was signed allows countries to decide the best way to cut down their gas pollution. Every five years, nations must look at the work they’ve done and submit new plans on how they’ll improve over the next five years.
In the pact, the countries pledge to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally. It urges countries to spend trillions of dollars on creating new energy sources. It also requires countries to raise at least $100 billion each year to help developing countries.
However, critics of the pact say it doesn’t include specifics about how the plan will be carried out and how improvements will be measured. The pact does include one large, specific goal: how countries will aim to keep global temperature from rising more than 3.6°F (2°C) by 2100.
Nonetheless, the agreement is considered by many world leaders to be a major victory. “History will remember this day,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. “The Paris agreement is a monumental success for the planet and its people.”
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