Parties at Paris Climate Conference Near Deal

Officials from 195 nations attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris have released a new draft text of a climate deal, as the deadline for a deal ticks down. The latest version includes wording that calls for "the widest possible cooperation by all countries" in the effort to reduce the emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. The goal is to hold the rate of global temperature change to less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. A...

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