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adoption of a historic global warming pact at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015
Signed on 12 December 2015, the Paris Agreement was greeted at the time as being historic, and still serves as a reference today.
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Ten years after, mixed results for the Paris Agreement
11.09.2025, by
Mathieu Grousson
In 2015, the historic Paris Agreement, signed by 195 countries, sought to limit global warming to 2 °C. Ten years later, the results have yet to materialize, raising questions regarding the effectiveness of COP meetings, major climate gatherings whose thirtieth edition kicks off Monday in Brazil.
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