Farming News - Historic climate change agreement vital to make food supply more resilient - NFU
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Historic climate change agreement vital to make food supply more resilient - NFU
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- To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
- To keep global temperature increase "well below" 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C
- To review progress every five years
- $100bn a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment to further finance in the future
NFU climate change adviser Dr Ceris Jones attended the two week summit in Paris and brought together farmers from all over the world including Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Jamaica, Denmark, Ireland, UK, Germany, Finland, Tunisia, Chad, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia and New Zealand.