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World agrees on landmark climate accord

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The global climate summit in Paris forged a landmark agreement Dec. 12, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming.

After years of bickering over how to move forward, the agreement finally sets a common vision and course of action. It sets an ambitious goal of restraining the rise in global temperature to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, a mark scientists fear could be a dangerous tipping point. Until now, the line was only 2 C. (Reuters)

COP21、「パリ協定」採択で閉幕

パリで行なわれていた国連気候変動枠組み条約第21回締約国会議（COP21）は12月12日、新たな国際的枠組みとなる「パリ協定」を採択して閉幕した。

The Japan Times ST: December 25, 2015