Shortly before 7.30pm on 12 December, 195 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the world’s first universal, legally-binding pact on tackling climate change.
Francois Hollande said the deal would be “a major leap for mankind”; Barack Obama called it “a turning point for the world”. Yet those are just two of the many, many viewpoints on the agreement.
Now, Carbon Brief is collating reactions from around the world in the grid below. We are capturing newspaper editorials, opinion pieces and the thoughts of NGOs, scientists and others.
Each summary is linked, so you can click through to the source. You can also filter the grid by type of reaction.
Thanks to Clean Energy Wire for English-language summaries of German coverage.
Below the grid of reactions, we have a gallery showing how newspaper front pages around the world covered the Paris deal.
The Observer, UK
The Guardian, UK
Sunday Times, UK
Independent on Sunday, UK
New York Times, USA
LA Times, USA
Boston Globe, USA
Washington Post, USA
Corriera Della Sella, Italy
Le Figaro, France
Politiken, Denmark
Sunday Star, Canada
La Nacion, Argentina
El Universal, Mexico
O Estado de S. Paulo, Brazil
O Globo, Brazil
El Pais, Spain
Der Tagesspeigel, Germany
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntags Zeitung, Germany
International New York Times, Europe
Rzeczpospolita, Poland
La Repubblica, Italy
El Universal, Venezuela
De Telegraaf, Netherlands
Hürriyet, Turkey
Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Oriental Morning Post, China
South China Morning Post, China
The Times, South Africa
Público, Portugal
Japan Times on Sunday
Haaretz, Israel
El Mercurio, Chile
Los Tiempos, Bolivia
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Carbon Brief coverage of the Paris Climate Conference
