A dramatic process of revision to the final text unfolded in the closing minutes of talks on Saturday
Negotiators at the this year's UN climate talks pored over fresh proposals Saturday aimed at sealing a deal that could credibly be said to boost the world's efforts to tackle global warming
Obama said the Paris agreement he helped to broker had created a framework to tackle climate change
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The two-week long negotiations which extended till Sunday saw no agreement on major issues such as Article 6, loss and damage, and long term finance
The narrow aim of the Madrid negotiations is to finalise the rulebook for the 2015 climate accord, which enjoins nations to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius.
The activist cited scientific reports that have established that unchecked warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) for the planet will be catastrophic.
To cap global warming at 'well under' two degrees Celsius, the planet-saving target in the 196-nation Paris Agreement, coal must be phased out