
With the bang of a gavel on December 12, 2015, delegates from 195 countries attending the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris committed to take actions to keep the rise in global temperature to less than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) above preindustrial levels. Visible worldwide, the effects of a changing climate include the loss of Arctic ice, which is necessary to polar bears ...
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