SciDevNet: A deal to reduce global emissions and help the world adapt to climate change was signed in Paris on 12 December -- with earlier concerns that science would be ignored allayed by new promises.
The agreement, signed by 195 countries, states the "aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible'. Nations will cut their emissions "rapidly' and "in accordance with best available science' to reach a "balance' between manmade emissions and carbon removals from the atmosphere...