Paris Agreement

DEFINITION: A global climate change deal signed at Paris at COP 21 in December 2015 and ratified by 97 countries in November 2016. The deal “emphasises with serious concern” the need to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2C” above pre-industrial levels, and “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C”.

See also: Conference of the Parties (COP)

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