Climate Home: There are many reasons to be optimistic world leaders will secure a deal in Paris next month that limits the damage wreaked by climate change.
The French hosts have gone all-out on diplomacy, 179 countries have submitted climate pledges and the biggest emitters are on board.
Those pledges don`t put the world on track to meet a 2C limit on warming, but they bend the curve. And there is growing consensus on the ratchet mechanism and finance needed to close the gap.
All the same, getting agreement...