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At which 2015 global summit did negotiators discover a translation discrepancy in the French-language version of the final legal text?
Answer
The Paris Climate Conference (COP21)
The 2015 Paris Climate Conference produced the Paris Agreement, whose final text was found to contain a wording discrepancy between the English and other official UN language versions, including French.
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Paris Agreement negotiators in 2015 discovered the binding legal language had a translation error in French, creating ambiguity that persists today.
Other options people guess
- The Copenhagen Summit (COP15)
- The Glasgow Summit (COP26)
- The Rio Earth Summit
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- climate-change
- paris-agreement
- diplomacy
- 2010s
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