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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

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That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. The initial set of emission reduction targets in 2015 was far too weak to limit global warming to 1.5 That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6°F), F), and preferably to 1.5°C