PARIS (AP) – The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won’t be easy – or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil fuels and slow global warming, patting themselves on the back for showing …

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – France presented negotiators from 190 nations with what it called a “final draft” of an unprecedented climate deal to slow global warming and urged them to approve it on Saturday. The deal, called the “Paris agreement,” would limit rising temperatures and sea levels, and eventually …

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local): 2:30 p.m. A top climate scientist who was critical of draft negotiation texts on Friday has praised the final draft as being consistent with science. John Schellnhuber, director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for …