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2015 Paris climate talks

In November 2015, nations met in Paris to negotiate an international agreement to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. Nature tracked the run-up to the twenty-first meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced a historic global accord.

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