Paris climate summit ‘final draft’ agreement reached

#Paris:  As one of the most important climate change summits in history wraps up in Paris today, organisers say a final draft text for limiting carbon emissions has been agreed.

Two weeks of intense negotiations known as the ‘COP21’ have produced a working document, an official of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’s office told reporters this morning.

The UN wants to ensure that the world agrees to limiting carbon consumption so that globally temperatures do not exceed another two degrees Celsius.

Warming of more than two degrees will cause Antarctica’s glaciers to melt even further, and experts have warned again and again that this will have catastrophic knock-on effects on the rest of the world.

No details have been released so far but the draft is expected to be presented to ministers