Climate change plan ‘historic turning point’ if adopted

Organisers of the climate talks in Paris have released details of a proposed landmark deal to curb climate change after two weeks of talks.

Nearly 200 countries are attempting to strike the first climate deal to commit all countries to cut emissions.

France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said the final draft of the deal is fair, legally binding and would limit warming to well below 2 degrees celcius.

The accord would come into being in 2020.

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, who’s leading the talks, has said, if adopted, it would be an “historic turning point”: “It confirms our key objective, the objective which is vital, that continuing to have a mean temperature well below two degrees and to endeavour to limit that increase to 1.5 degrees.”