Negotiators reach draft agreement on climate change

French President François Hollande at the start of the global climate change summit in Paris
(Image credit: Charles Platiau/AFP/Getty Images)

Negotiators from 195 countries reached a draft agreement on climate change at the United Nations summit in Paris on Saturday, CNN reports. In the next week, ministers will take the 48-page document and work to finalize a global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Christiana Figueres, a top U.N. official on climate change, lauded the summit's progress on Twitter. Julie Kliegman

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.