A climate deal, 6 fateful years in the making
By The New York Times – December 14, 2015
It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as “shall.”
But the story of how the deal came together started long before that — in December 2009, with the failure of the last such summit meeting, in Copenhagen.
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