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Nations agree to Paris climate rulebook at U.N.-brokered talks

Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.

School kids demonstrate on the last day of U.N. climate talks in Poland.
School kids demonstrate on the last day of U.N. climate talks in Poland. (AN/David Tong)

Almost 200 nations adopted a rulebook for the Paris Agreement that sets out how nations must report their carbon emissions and pay for climate action.

After two weeks of U.N.-brokered talks in the Polish city of Katowice, negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations should be required to report their greenhouse gas emissions.

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