Energy and Environment

Climate change deal calls for emissions caps

By Jennifer Peebles
Published December 14, 2014 3:17pm ET
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Climate change deal calls for emissions caps
Environmental activists in a mock boat perform wearing puppet heads representing leaders, from left, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott, President Barak Obama, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Climate Change Conference COP20 in Lima Peru, Friday.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia) | Martin Mejia

Representatives of 196 countries reached an agreement on climate change this weekend that would call for each country to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

The historic agreement caps 20 years of discussions on the issue by the United Nations. The agreement was reached this weekend at talks in Peru, the New York Times reported.

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