Paris Agreement 2015
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Paris agreement 2015. The eu and its member states are among the close to 190 parties to the paris agreement. The 2015 united nations climate change conference cop 21 or cmp 11 was held in paris france from 30 november to 12 december 2015 it was the 21st yearly session of the conference of the parties cop to the 1992 united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc and the 11th session of the meeting of the parties cmp to the 1997 kyoto protocol. The paris agreement is an agreement within the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The paris agreement builds upon the convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to.
The paris agreement is the first ever universal legally binding global climate change agreement adopted at the paris climate conference cop21 in december 2015. The agreement aims to respond to the global climate change threat by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels and to pursue. 1 paris agreement the parties to this agreement being parties to the united nations framework convention on climate change hereinafter referred to as the convention pursuant to the durban platform for enhanced action established by decision 1 cp 17 of the conference of the parties to the convention at its seventeenth session. Paris agreement international treaty named for the city of paris in which it was adopted in december 2015 which aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming.
The paris agreement entered into force on 4 november 2016 thirty days after the date on which at least 55 parties to the convention accounting in total for at least an estimated 55 of the total global greenhouse gas emissions have deposited their instruments of ratification acceptance approval or accession with the depositary. The paris agreement entered into force on november 4 2016 and has been signed by 197 countries and ratified by 187. The paris agreement is a landmark environmental accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. At cop 21 in paris on 12 december 2015 parties to the unfccc reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.