The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) confirmed that attendees delivered a "breakthrough on the future of the international community’s response to climate change". A universal legal agreement on climate change will be adopted as soon as possible, but no later than 2015.
Governments also agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from January 2013 and to "get the Green Climate Fund up and running" to deliver financial support of developing countries to reduce emissions.
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Climate activists are saying that this is still not enough and it will mean that the 2 degrees Celcius rise will be breached and it now be 4 degrees. Some even called the deal useless. Whilst the new agreement will be decided no later than 2015, it is not schedulded to come into effect until 2020 which many are saying is too late.
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