A landmark agreement negotiated by over 200 countries to limit the rise of global temperatures to less than 2 degrees C was achieved on December 12, 2015.
Read more in the BBC News Science and Environment Report
Key points
The measures in the agreement included:
• To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
• To keep global temperature increase “well below” 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C
• To review progress every five years
• $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment to further finance in the future.