By SHAIRA PANELA
PARIS, France (Updated) — The final draft of the climate change deal was released on Saturday afternoon to more than 195 countries at the United Nations-led climate change summit here. Delegates are to discuss the contents of the current text.
During the 6th Paris Committee which convened at about 11:30AM (Paris time), conference president French Minister Laurent Fabius, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and French President Francois Hollande delivered passionate speeches about the potentially universally and legally binding climate agreement.
Fabius, for one, said that he is aware that many of the negotiators thought that elements of the proposals were “impossible” to achieve.
Prior to this, the conference president French Minister Laurent Fabius undertook several informal consultations called “Indaba of Solutions” after the 5th Paris Committee has adjourned.
The current text is 31-pages long. I was originally composed of 54 pages. On December 5, the draft agreement was still 48 pages. Subsequent versions were trimmed down to 29 on December 9, and 27 pages on December 10.
The draft agreement’s Preamble puts the temperature limit target to “well below 2 degrees C abobe pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C.”
If adopted, the agreement intends to be “legally-binding” across all nations.
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