He said the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions is not enough for people on front lines of climate change.
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“After relentless efforts, the Paris agreement that we have achieved today is an agreement that is fair and just, comprehensive and balanced, highly ambitious, enduring and effective”, said Xie.
“Don’t believe everything that is written in this blueprint”, Jon Palais, co-founder of the NGO Alternatiba said on Saturday, on the sidelines of an anti-COP21 demonstration near the Eiffel Tower.
A final deal is expected to provide developing nations greater financial security as they wean themselves away from coal-fired power, and also suffer the financial consequences of a warming climate on the earth’s flora and fauna.
Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, is calling the deal “historic”, and “sets world on new path to low emissions, climate-resilient future”.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urged delegates to adopt the draft.
The United Nations climate summit concluded with delegates adopting the Paris Agreement, the first-ever global climate deal of this magnitude.
“All the conditions are there for us to reach a universal, ambitious agreement”, said Fabius.
“It is rare to have an opportunity to change the world”.
Developing nations insist rich countries must shoulder the lion’s share of responsibility for tackling climate change as they have polluted most since the Industrial Revolution – a principle known as “differentiation”.
Hours beforehand, French President François Hollande vaunted the “historic moment” the world was entering, as 195 nations mulled over whether or not to endorse the Paris’ climate deal.
The agreement, which was publicly released Saturday morning (ET), sets the goal of limiting the world’s rise in average temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius”.
“We must protect the planet that sustains us, ” he said.
In 2018, two years before the agreement enters into force, countries will take stock of the overall impact of what they are doing to rein in global warming, and revisit their carbon-curbing plans in 2020.
“We’ve agreed to what we ought to be doing, but no one yet has agreed to go do it”, said Dennis Clare, a negotiator for the Federated States of Micronesia.
The landmark deal, the culmination of years of negations, is an attempt to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum, also alleged that there had been a “co-ordinated campaign to gut the text” of ambition by some developed countries.
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The official said the text is being translated into other languages before being presented at a special meeting at the Paris climate talks at 11:30 a.m. (1030 GMT). “And they will look to December 12, 2015 as the day when the community of nations final made the decision to act”. “For that, we need all hands on deck”, he said.
