Delegates from the big industrialized countries hailed the new agreement’s goal to limit global warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels” and “pursue efforts” to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius.

Representatives from non-developed countries pointed out that that the agreement failed to hold the top polluters accountable. These major polluters include the multinational fossil fuel corporations, the global military industrial complex, and countries like the US, China, European Union, Russia and Japan. The Paris Agreement allows the most notorious polluters to make voluntary commitments to emissions cuts, climate financing, technology transfer, and policy reforms on climate change.

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