The Paris climate talks: Yes oui can!
We’ll keep you posted as heads of state butt heads, as negotiators twist arms, and as activists make noise and demand that world leaders get their asses in gear.
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U.S. military no longer automatically exempt from emissions targets under Paris deal
Countries won't be forced to cut their military emissions, but there's no automatic exemption for them, either.
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Renewables poised to surge after Paris Agreement
Thanks to new policies, investment, and technology, we might be entering the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era.
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Obama calls Paris climate agreement “a turning point for the world”
Is this the moment when the rise of the oceans begins to slow?
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How world leaders came to agree on a landmark climate deal
The deal is far from an ultimate solution to climate change, but it represents unprecedented progress.
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Activists on the street have the last word in Paris
As many as 10,000 people from across Europe and beyond made the point that the Paris climate agreement isn't nearly strong enough.
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![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
Here’s what you need to know about the new Paris climate agreement
What will the deal do? What things made it into the text? What didn’t? We explain all.
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World leaders adopt 1.5 C goal — and we’re damn well going to hold them to it
Bill McKibben applauds the Paris climate agreement's goal to restrain temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. Now we have to demand that leaders actually do it.
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See aerial images of climate activists doing funky things in Paris
They turned the streets around the Arc de Triomphe into a giant sun, wrote "climate justice" across the city, and more.
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Check out these 9 climate art projects that are wowing people in Paris
While negotiators have been hammering out a global deal, artists have been using the City of Light as a canvas for cool projects.
