Paris climate talks: governments adopt historic deal – as it happened

Live coverage from COP21 in Paris, as nearly 200 governments prepare to officially adopt a climate change deal on how to cut carbon emissions post-2020

8.32pm GMT

I'm calling it a night for live coverage here in Paris, where 195 governments have agreed the world's first universal climate deal. It's been hailed as historic, transformative, momentous.

"Today we celebrate, tomorrow we have to act," says the EU climate chief, Miguel Arias Canete.

8.14pm GMT

Miguel Arias Canete, the EU's climate commissioner, said: "This is a success for the high ambition coalition", referring to a group of more than 100 developed and developing nations pulled together by the EU and the leaders of some of the small island states, and those most vulnerable to climate change.

"This was the last chance [for the UN process]," he added, "and we have taken it."He said that, with the agreement in place, the most important work now needed to be done. "Now it is about implementation. We need to have the policies. The EU has policies, and everyone needs to have policies [to put the agreement into practice]."