SPECIAL REPORT (update): Paris Climate Agreement - Details & Reactions

<> Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end of fossil fuel era - After 20 years of fraught meetings, including the past two weeks spent in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris, negotiators from nearly 200 countries signed on to a legal agreement on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit temperature rises and to hold governments to account for reaching those targets -- the deal was carefully constructed to carry legal force but without requiring approval by the US Congress - which would have almost certainly rejected it. Paris climate deal: key points at a glance UNFCCC Release: Historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change The Agreement: Adoption of the Paris Agreement. Proposal by the President - 12 December 2015. 31-pages UN chief hails new climate change agreement as 'monumental triumph' Paris Climate Change Conference COP21/CMP11 - Documents & details

<> White House Release: U.S. Leadership and the Historic Paris Agreement to Combat Climate Change Obama: Paris climate deal turning point for the world – video – President Barack Obama makes a statement from the White House on Saturday on the new global climate agreement. Statement by the President on the Paris Climate Agreement Press Conference & Statement of Secretary of State John Kerry Statement from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Statement on Climate Negotiations Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

<> Statements Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement Pelosi Statement on Historic Paris Climate Summit Agreement Boxer Statement on Agreement Reached at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris C2ES Statement on final text of Paris climate talks US Clean Energy Business Coalition Praises Adoption of Paris Agreement The-Paris-Agreement-a-new-compass-for-business Statement on Paris Agreement from Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp Global Action on Historic Climate Change Agreement Expected in Paris - Union Of Concerned Scientists NRDC President: Climate Change has "Met its Match in the Will of a United World" Sierra Club on the Paris Climate Agreement: "A Turning Point for Humanity" COP21: shows the end of fossil fuels is near, we must speed its coming - Greenpeace

<> Statements Opposing the Paris Climate Agreement Inhofe Statement on Final COP21 Climate Deal James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud' U.S. Chamber Statement in Reaction to COP21 Climate Change Agreement Paris Climate Deal is Another Paper Tiger - American Energy Alliance Weak Paris Climate Deal Won't Protect Planet's Poorest People, Web of Life - Center for Biological Diversity Paris Agreement could allow more tar sands expansion, export pipelines

<> Republicans on Campaign Trail Largely Ignore the Climate Deal - In a stark display of the partisan divide in the United States over climate change, the Republican presidential candidates have said almost nothing about the Paris Agreement, even though whoever succeeds Mr. Obama will be tasked with carrying it out. Clinton Releases Statement of Support for Paris Climate Change Agreement Sanders: Paris climate pact 'goes nowhere near far enough'