Paris Climate Change Talks End in Agreement Being Signed

French foreign minister and president-designate of COP21 Laurent Fabius (centre), raises hands with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon and French president François Hollande. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images
French foreign minister and president-designate of COP21 Laurent Fabius (centre), raises hands with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon and French president François Hollande. Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

The last of the Paris climate change talks took place on Saturday, in which ministers from 196 countries got together to debate the issue. Following hours of negotiations and compromises, at 7:16pm the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, announced that the agreement had finally been signed.

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