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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11452

13 December 2015
COP21: SPECIAL EDITION No 11452 / (ae) climate
EU welcomes historic achievement of universal and binding Paris Agreement

Paris, Le Bourget, 14/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - Global benefits from the success of COP 21 in Paris. At 19.30 on Saturday 12 December, the 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change succeeded in concluding a universal, binding, dynamic and differentiated agreement to face the challenge of climate change (see EUROPE 11451).

Six years after the breakdown of Copenhagen (COP 15) and following a two-week marathon of negotiations, this agreement marks a turning point...