Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change. President Obama, in a statement Saturday, called the new deal "an ambitious and far-reaching solution to this looming crisis." Environmental groups had hoped that the deal could reduce global warming by half a degree Celsius by the end of this century. Environmental groups were already turning attention Saturday to other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. "Acting on HFCs does not exempt us from acting on CO2 or other important greenhouse gases like methane.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 15, 2016 15:45 UTC