After decades of negotiations, 196 countries agreed in Paris in December of 2015 to work together to reduce carbon emissions and protect the planet from catastrophic global warming. The Paris Agreement opens a completely new chapter in global climate policy. For the first time all countries acknowledged that climate change is their problem. This has profound implications not only for climate policy, but for South-North relations in general. The experts in this panel will provide a political and legal overview of the agreement and its meaning for environmental protection and global justice.They will focus on the most vulnerable states, their negotiation strategies and policy opportunities for improving their situation both in terms of the Paris Agreement and negotiations on the loss and damage dimension of climate governance.