Experts reflect on Paris climate negotiations outcome

After two weeks of negotiations in Paris, the world’s nations have reached a global deal to tackle climate change.

The agreement commits 196 countries to help limit global warming to “well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5℃”.

 Under the agreement:

Countries will pursue their self-determined emissions targets from 2020 onwards.

The national targets will be reviewed and strengthened every five years.

 Global emissions should peak “as soon as possible”.

 By the second half of this century, greenhouse gas emissions should be balanced out by sinks, processes that remove them from the air.

 Developed nations will contribute at least US$100 billion a year from 2020 to help poorer nations deal with climate change.

 Experts react to the agreement in this piece from The Conversation - “Historic Paris climate pact reached – experts react.”