During the annual climate conference of the UN this year in Peru, representative and participants from 196 nations have committed to a deal that could ultimately improve the world's current greenhouse condition.  

Over the next 6 months, all countries will submit their proposals on how they intend to address the growing problem of carbon emission in their respective nations, according to the new UN climate deal. These proposals will become a basis for next year's climate change conference in Paris as the UN gears towards coming up with new and significant climate agreement that is to take effect in 2020.

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The agreement also demands that countries further exceed what carbon emission pledge they already observe in order to ascertain improvement from each nation.

However, there are actually no stated rules on how emissions get controlled and what the time line is. In a sense, some have considered this as a voluntary act more than mandatory.

Countries like China, the United States, and the European Union have already made advanced pledges. China promised to hasten its plan of utilizing renewable energy to stop its rising carbon usage by the year 2030.

The United States pledged a 26-28% lower emission rate in year 2025 from what it used to spend in 2005. The European Union, on the other hand, guaranteed a 40% decrease in its emission from its 1990 rate by 2030.

This new treaty is a deviation from the last climate conference in Japan in 1997 which then required only wealthy nations to cut their carbon emission. Nations like India and China that were considered developing had been exempted before.

The 1997 treaty might have been logical during that time but today, it is the developing countries that make up most of the world's carbon emission. Hence, they are now included in this year's climate deal.

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