{"id":31121,"date":"2015-12-16T23:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T12:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=31121"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:17","slug":"the-paris-moment-for-climatejustice-takvera-on-the-historic-parisagreement-of-cop21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/the-paris-moment-for-climatejustice-takvera-on-the-historic-parisagreement-of-cop21\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paris moment for #climatejustice. @takvera on the historic #Parisagreement of #COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the history of the World the Paris Agreement will be regarded as an historic moment. Even though it was far from perfect and didn’t go far enough. It was part of the Paris moment for climate justice.<\/p>\n

Paris was a moral turning point. When 195 countries agreed by consensus to set a target to decarbonise by the later half of the century, an ambitious climate temperature goal and an international framework to achieve it. <\/p>\n

It signifies the turning of the tide against fossil fuel pollution, although as Naomi Klein highlights, fossil fuels is not mentioned once in the agreement.<\/p>\n

The Paris Agreement<\/a> (PDF) is far from a fair deal when looked at in terms of historical emissions, and action based on differentiation and equity. It was a compromise, and the developed countries largely won their agenda, but with some political concessions to vulnerable and least developed and developing nations on the temperature goal and basic finance. <\/p>\n

The Climate Vulnerable Forum clearly won the moral argument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the moments when the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, President of the Conference of the Parties (COP) announced that we had an historic deal, recorded by civil society delegate Philippa Rowland in an overflow room:<\/p>\n