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Historic Paris Climate Pact 2015 adopted

The Agreement is scheduled to go into effect in 2020.The goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, COP21, is to achieve a legally binding, 
The following agreement was adopted during the Paris climate pact:
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. To curb the incessant rise in global temperature level.
2. Financing developing economies to help them reach the goal, so decided.international agreement to keep average global temperatures no more than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures.
-Major features outlined by the CoP21 proposal:
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. It takes into account the differentiation and responsibility of developing countries, and their respective capacities in light of national circumstances.
2. Confirms the key objective of containing mean global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius and to endeavour to limit it to 1.5 degrees.
3. There will be five-yearly national contributions on actions taken to address climate change.
4. There is provision for adaptation to climate change and cooperation on loss and damage suffered by countries on a long term basis to provide necessary means to all countries for durable development.
5.  Provision of 100 billion per year as a floor by 2020 to help developing nations.
6.  A new figure to be defined for the period between now and 2020.
7. Collective stocktaking every five years of national actions and consideration of steps if efforts are insufficient for the objective set.

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