Global Warming

Paris Climate Talks - Update

Negotiators from 195 countries agreed Saturday on a blueprint deal aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming, a significant but far from conclusive step in the multinational effort to keep climate change in check.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) posted on its website a copy of the draft agreement, which officials have been working on intensively for some time.

The document addresses deforestation, food security, poverty and a host of other issues, with chunks of the document focused on what developed countries can do to reduce carbon dioxide missions by a yet to be determined level by 2050.

This includes what they can do to help other countries. To this point, one line in the draft states, "Developed countries shall provide developing countries with long-term, scaled-up, predictable, new and additional finance, technology and capability-building."

Officials will now work through next week at the COP21 conference in Paris to craft a complete, final agreement.

Doing so may not be easy, but that didn't stop those involved in the process from celebrating Saturday's announcement.