Paris climate treaty ‘a huge and historic step forward’

President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the sweeping global climate change accord reached by representatives of almost 200 countries as the “best chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got”.

Activists planned protests across Paris on Saturday to call attention to populations threatened by melting glaciers, rising seas and expanding deserts linked to climate change.

“However, this agreement does give us a strategy to work together over coming years and decades to build the strong and effective action the world needs”, Bishop told the conference.

Erin Flanagan, the federal policy director of Pembina Institute, says the federal government should establish a climate change plan quickly.

To meet the goal that was set in the Paris climate agreement, different and more efficient methods of producing energy will likely need to be adopted around the globe.

The global climate deal is basically a new economic blueprint for the planet because it aims to cut greenhouse gas pollution from burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agriculture that is heating up the atmosphere and oceans.

Following the adoption of the Paris Agreement by the 21st Conference of Parties, it will be taken to the United Nations headquarters.

“We’ve shown that the world has both the will and the ability to take on this challenge”.

Fabius said the “final draft” would retain a long-term goal of keeping the overall global temperature rise from pre-industrial times to the end of this century “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Negotiators in Paris just approved a climate accord to curb the rapid growth of greenhouse gases and prevent a unsafe warming of the planet. French President Francois Hollande, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius implored delegates to make history and support the agreement. While the details remain to be filled in, the agreement also calls for transparent reporting of emissions to keep nations to their pledges. They will report their progress using an global standard, a framework that environmentalists hope will lead to more ambitious carbon reductions in the future.

They say Obama’s commitment to reduce emissions from US power plants would cost thousands of American jobs and raise electricity costs. The suggests, though, that wealthier developing countries can also contribute such funds if they would like.

“Critics said the agreement would still condemn hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and small islands”, The Guardian comments.

Country pledges are only predicted to limit global warming to around 2.7degC.