COP21 as it happened: Global climate deal adopted in Paris

Summary

A two-week UN summit in Paris has agreed the first climate deal to commit all countries to cut emissions
The international agreement was gavelled through by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to claps and cheers
More than 190 countries had been working on the pact for four years after earlier attempts to reach such a deal failed
Negotiations ran into the small hours for three consecutive nights in order to hammer out the final draft

Live Reporting

Jonathan Webb, Matt McGrath, Helen Briggs and Mark Kinver

Leaders' speeches to recommence soonpublished at 14:12
Delegates are beginning to file back to their places for the second batch of leaders' speeches. These will again be happening concurrently in two huge plenary rooms.
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Things are behind schedule again, but that is not really a surprise.
The scale of this conference becomes very apparent at meal breaks...
...and when you see the size of the press operation.
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TV correspondents line up side-by-side to broadcast live
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Lines of desks for text journalists are nearly all full
Send us your commentspublished at 13:40
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Kafantaris, Warren, Ohio, USA:
Relying exclusively on wind, solar, hydroelectrics and conservation to replace fossil fuels is not only foolish but utterly dangerous. We need to use all means at hand to make the rest of the clean power we need. Only the new generation nuclear power plants fit this bill - and they can also make us abundant hydrogen for transportation. The sooner we accept this fact the sooner we can put together a workable solution to fight climate change.
Break timepublished at 13:24
Delegates, in their thousands, are taking a lunch break here in Paris.
The leaders' speeches will recommence at 14:45 CET (13:45 GMT).
In the meantime, here are some of President Obama's words from earlier this afternoon; he outlined a nightmarish vision of the world if efforts to stop global warming were not stepped up.
Global warming is 'all about capitalism'published at 13:05
Bolivia's president Evo Morales lambasted the free market as the inherent cause of climate change.
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Mother Earth is getting close to the end and the capitalist system is partly responsible for that. Capitalism has fostered and introduced and driven forward over the past 200 years the most savage and destructive formula against our species.
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
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President Morales was greeted earlier by the French minister for ecology Segolene Royal
Great speeches won't secure a dealpublished at 13:00 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2015
Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News
Just weeks after violent attacks in Paris, a sombre French president Francois Hollande today greeted global leaders by linking the issues of climate change with terrorism. He told the audience that we must not just leave our children a world free of terror - we owe them a viable planet as well.
President Obama also made that connection and urged a strong, long-term treaty that would build a world not of conflict but of co-operation. He also announced a 20-billion-dollar-a-year clean technology initiative involving governments and entrepreneurs such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
Announcements like this will increase the sense of optimism here - but goodwill alone won't secure a deal. Divisions among the parties about the form, costs and content of an agreement run deep.
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Vivek Toshniwal, India
World leaders have to accept their common but differentiated responsibilities to produce an agreement which will act as a roadmap for the future.
Putin calls for legally binding dealpublished at 12:49
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We have demonstrated we can ensure economic development and take care of our environment at the same time
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
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Egypt, Germany leaders take stagepublished at 12:41 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2015
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Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, emphasises the commitments made by Germany and the EU to decarbonise their economies.
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President Xi Jinping emphasises 'fairness and justice'published at 12:24
Addressing delegates and fellow world leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on "on all countries, the developed countries in particular, to share more responsibility for win-win outcomes".
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COP21 is not a finish line, but a new starting point.
Xi Jinping, President of China
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Send us your viewspublished at 12:28
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Mario Gasparovic, Toronto, Canada
Every inhabitant of the planet Earth should do his/her part in the fight to protect the ozone layer and prevent further build-up of greenhouse gases.
Add to the debatepublished at 12:27
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James Masters, Salisbury
Get rid of your car unless you absolutely need one for work. If you have a car, have the smallest possible engine. Ban all vehicles with more than one exhaust pipe. Stop trying to upstage your neighbour by having a large swanky car. It's cars that are contributing most to global warming.
Quite a gathering: 'family photo' of leaders in attendancepublished at 12:20
Here is the photo that caused some delays to the speeches...
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Watch live: world leaders' speeches continuepublished at 12:04
You can watch the afternoon's talks using the 'Live Coverage' tab above.
Ismail Omar Guelleh, the president of Djibouti, is currently at the podium.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is next.
He will be followed by the leaders of Lithuania, Egypt, Germany and Russia.
Send us your commentspublished at 12:06 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2015
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Steve Dealler, Lancaster
I have watched the worries about climate change for thirty years. Initially it seemed almost impossible to do anything about it but gradually this has reversed. Now it is that the politicians that must change. Yes it will require an increase in energy prices. Yes it will require people to accept putting up with things they are not used to e.g. insulation, wind turbines. The people can do this to save the planet but where are the politicians?
Obama: 'We have broken the old arguments for inaction'published at 11:59
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"We are the first generation to feel climate change and the last that can do something about it
Barack Obama, President of the US
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Obama addresses climate summitpublished at 11:50
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No nation, large or small, rich or poor, is immune to what this means.
Barack Obama, President of the US
Largest gathering of world leaders 'in history'published at 11:45
The conference in Paris has brought together more world leaders in the same and at the same time than ever before in history, organisers say - stating that 151 heads of state and other leaders are at the talks today.
This makes it the largest such gathering on record, according to UN climate agency spokesman Nicholas Nuttall.
The annual UN General Assembly in New York also gathers a large number of world leaders but the event is spread out over several days and not all leaders attend at the same time.
French President Francois Hollande said:
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No conference has ever gathered so many leaders from so many countries ... but never before have the international stakes been so high
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Obama to speak shortlypublished at 11:36
Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, is represented at the summit by his son, who is presently speaking at one of two concurrent sessions, packed with three-minute addresses.
President Obama is scheduled to follow.
COP21: Follow the conference on Twitterpublished at 11:28
The BBC's social media team is putting together a list of correspondents and reporters covering the conference. They'll be adding to it throughout the day.
If you're on Twitter you can subscribe to the list here, external.
You can also use the hashtag #COP21, external to follow the wider conversation.
Cimate change - what the papers saypublished at 11:20
The climate change conference in Paris looms large on newspaper opinion pages this morning. Here's a selection of comment and editorial from some of the UK and US.
"There is no planet B" - the Guardian, external
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The danger of the UN-backed annual negotiations is that they can make tackling climate change look like a problem for other people. It is true that it requires global coordination. But that has to grow from national and local interest. It is here that non-state players, among them religions, have a crucial role in helping us to understand that self-interest demands solidarity.
"What the Paris meeting must do" - the New York Times, external
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Paris will almost certainly not produce an ironclad, planet-saving agreement in two weeks. But it can succeed in an important way that earlier meetings have not — by fostering collective responsibility, a strong sense among countries large and small, rich and poor, that all must play a part in finding a global solution to a global problem.
"Doom-mongers should looks at the science" - Matt Ridley, the Times (£), external
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[T]he problem they are discussing - not warming, but dangerous warming - has not yet manifested itself. It lies in the future. The climate has changed, for sure, as it always does, but not yet in a way that is harmful or unprecedented.
"Leaders seem to have learned a lesson" - Washington Post, external
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[T]he Paris conference may set the world on a path to significantly bend the global greenhouse emissions curve downward, build mechanisms to review countries’ progress, and establish institutions and expectations that press world governments to do more in coming years. It will be a success if it accomplishes these goals.