More Than 190 Countries Adopt First Global Climate Pact

[RandySF]

LE BOURGET, France -- Governments have adopted a global agreement that for the first time asks all countries to reduce or rein in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Loud applause erupted in the conference hall outside of Paris after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gaveled the agreement Saturday. Some delegates started crying. Others embraced.

More than 190 countries had been negotiating the pact for four years after earlier attempts to reach such a deal failed.

The White House is calling the Paris accord "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" and says it establishes "a long-term, durable global framework" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

President Barack Obama is to make a statement on the climate agreement later Saturday at the White House.


http://abc7news.com/news/nations-give-early-ok-to-1st-global-climate-pact/1120156/

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[greytdemocrat]

2. This sounds like a "feel good" agreement.

In other words, useless.

How are you going to prove a country is doing its part???

[ananda]

3. Agree.

Also, too little too late.

Extreme counter-measures are needed NOW, actually were needed years ago.

[pampango]

4. That's my fear too. "Pretty words" on paper - without enforcement - do little more than

provide moral support.

Of course, if there is any kind of effective enforcement - punishment for a country that does not do what it agreed to - the wails of 'national sovereignty' will arise. "You can't punish us for running our economy the way we want to and continuing to pollute. Who are you, foreigners and international bodies, to punish us? We are a sovereign country."

I can hear the republicans now.