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## Video: The Promising Language Of The Paris Climate Agreement

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_Published 2015-12-12. Negotiators have approved an ambitious plan to reduce the effects of anthropogenic climate change._


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## Transcript

On Saturday, World Leaders released the final draft of the Climate Change Accord that aims at bringing nearly every nation on the planet together to battle climate change. The chief goal of the summit was to develop a plan for capping the increase in average global temperatures to two degrees celsius or 3. 6 degrees Fahrenheit. They aim to accomplish this by greatly cutting back on fossil fuel emissions, though some scientists say fossil fuels need to be completely eliminated between 2050 and 2100 to maintain global temperatures. Scientists say increasing the global temperature by two degrees Celsius could kick off a series of droughts, rising sea levels, severe flooding, and food and water shortages.

And unlike past plans the French Foreign Minster Laurent Fabius says this agreement will be legally binding. Developing economies like China and India have been exempt from past climate deals, but this agreement requires every nation to take some kind of action. Now the draft goes before the 195 countries at the conference plus the European Union. If it passes, it's up to individual countries to ratify the document

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