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Paris climate deal: Final draft text unveiled, France's Fabius says it is ambitious, balanced, historic

Cracking with emotion after talks ran into a day of over time, Fabius said the text nearly 200 governments must now endorse constituted "the best balance possible".

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a draft climate pact hammered out after two weeks of talks in Paris was ambitious, balanced and if adopted would be an "historic turning point" to keeping temperature rises well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Cracking with emotion after talks ran into a day of over time, Fabius said the text nearly 200 governments must now endorse constituted "the best balance possible". It seeks to keep temperature rises "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and if possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, Fabius told delegates to loud applause

Another major debate has been over a promise that developed nations should provide $100 billion to help poorer nations deal with the consequences of climate change. Fabius said the draft text would set that figure as a floor by 2020. 

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