Diplomats in Paris at the United Nationa Climate Change summit have approved a climate deal which hopes to tackle with the issue of climate change, applying to 195 countries!
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After 20 years of fraught meetings, including the past two weeks spent in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris, negotiators from nearly 200 countries signed on to a deal on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit temperature rise and to hold governments to account for reaching those targets.
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It’s an outpouring of emotion inside the plenary hall. People are weping and celbrating, hugging and exchanging kisses, weeping freely. Fabius is happy. And so he deserves to be - this is an acehivement many thought would be impossible.
He is now thanking all those who helped reach this historic agreement.
The President of Franch Francois Hollande and Ban Ki-moon are hugging Figueres and Tubiana.
It’s better than a football match.
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I would like to thank Katy Perry for her contribution in helping to persuade world leaders,
making this video to remind the world about climate change.