Climate action
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. The goal by 2030 is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, which include include rising sea levels and more extreme weather events.
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Representatives from nearly 200 countries made common cause in the fight against climate change Saturday, adopting an agreement they hope will avert some of the worst effects of global warming and shift economies around the world to cleaner energy sources.
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The historic climate agreement reached at the Paris summit Saturday commits for the first time virtually every nation to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
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Even as it became clear that a historic climate agreement could be reached in France, activists were organizing protests deep into next year, some liberal political leaders were pledging to go beyond whatever goals the agreement might yield and diplomats, scientists and consultants were planning the next global summit.
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In the fall of 1863, two families pushed into the northern edge of Bear Lake Valley, quickly built a log cabin with a dirt floor and then hunkered down to endure the brutal winter.
