Members of the Paris summit approved the climate agreement

All 196 representatives of member countries of the global climate summit in Paris after two weeks of negotiations approved a new framework agreement the United Nations which determines the rate of greenhouse gas emissions after 2020 and measures to prevent climate change. His signing will be held on April 22 2016 at UN headquarters in New York said on Saturday December 12 Reuters .

On approval of the document declared French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. He called the agreement “an ambitious and balanced” noting that it is “historic turning point” in the effort to prevent global warming.

Russia’s position has been accounted for in the agreement said Tass Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi. According to him in the near future Moscow will work on the implementation of agreements through the development of relevant federal law.

US President Barack Obama called the conclusion climate agreement tremendous achievement. “Almost all countries have just approved the Paris Agreement on climate change – thanks to American leadership” – he wrote in Twitter .

UN climate summit held in Paris from November 30 it was initially planned to end on the 11th of December. The agreement which inter alia provides for the allocation of $ 100 billion to developing countries to address climate issues should replace the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted in 1997 in addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In accordance with the provisions of the Protocol developed countries and countries with economies in transition have to reduce or stabilize emissions of environmentally harmful greenhouse gases.

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