In his Presidential Memoir, A Promised Land, former US President Barack Obama recounts vividly the events that preceded the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2015, commonly referred to as COP21 was on the verge of collapse before he landed in Paris.
He recounts confronting the European Union Caucus with the only deal he thought he could get passed in Congress before storming into the BRIC countries caucus without invitation.
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