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The Paris Agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It also aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts. The is the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate change agreement, adopted at the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015. The EU and its Member States are among the close to 190 Parties to the Paris Agreement. The EU formally ratified the agreement on 5 October 2016, thus enabling its entry into force on 4 November 2016. For the agreement to enter into force, at least 55 countries representing at least 55% of global emissions had to deposit their instruments of . The Paris Agreement is a bridge between today's policies and climate-neutrality before the end of the century. Mitigation: reducing emissions Governments agreed • a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels; • to aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C, since this would significantly reduce risks and the impacts of climate change; • on the need for global emissions to peak as soon as possible, recognising that this will take longer for developing countries; • to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with the best available science, so as to achieve a balance between emissions and removals in the second half of the centu...

The Eiffel tower lit up during the Paris climate talks, referencing the 1.5C target that governments have agreed to pursue efforts to hold temperatures to. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP The Eiffel tower lit up during the Paris climate talks, referencing the 1.5C target that governments have agreed to pursue efforts to hold temperatures to. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP The Paris agreement on climate change enters into force on Friday, marking the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises. The passage of the accord – the fruit of more than two decades of often tortuous international negotiations on combating climate change – was hailed by nations and observers around the world. Under the agreement, all governments that have ratified the accord, which includes the US, China, India and the EU, now carry an obligation to hold global warming to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels. That is what scientists regard as the limit of safety, beyond which climate change is likely to become catastrophic and irreversible. It's a climate change accord agreed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015, which came into force on 4 November 2016. The agreement commits world leaders to keeping global warming below 2C, seen as the threshold for safety by scientists, and pursuing a tougher target of 1.5C.The carbon emission curbs put forward by countries under Paris are not legally-binding but the framework of the accord, which includes a mech...

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Courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (ISS007-E-14969) At a rose garden ceremony on June 1, 2017, U.S. President “So we’re getting out.But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair.And if we can, that’s great.And if we can’t, that’s fine.” However, many political pundits and analysts have noted that while former president The Paris Agreement, which was designed to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, was the centerpiece of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the America’s formal exit from the Paris Agreement requires more than a declaration from the White House rose garden. Trump’s decision is considered largely symbolic, because it will take four years to complete, and the country’s formal departure would wrap up on November 4, 2020, the day after the next U.S. presidential election. Nevertheless, Trump’s announcement is a harsh blow to world morale (and to the enthusiasm associated with a rising sense of global community around this topic). Although many of the world’s other leaders have expressed their disappointment with Trump’s decision, they have also underscored their commitment to solving the problem of To date there are only two other countries that have not yet signed on to the Paris Agreement:

The nations of the European Union collectively are responsible for 12.1 percent of the planet’s emissions, more than enough to cross the 55 percent threshold. But although the E.U. will now join as a whole — which officially could take place later this week at the United Nations — only seven of its member countries have individually ratified the agreement thus far. That includes big emitters Germany ( Throughout much of 2016, world leaders from President Obama to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have pushed to bring the Paris agreement into force as early as possible, with the United States and China leading the drive. But even as the accord was being negotiated last December in Paris, few expected that the world would ratify it so rapidly. Now the focus inevitably shifts to more thorny issues — namely, how the world will actually get to a place where it’s possible to limit the warming of the planet to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as the Paris agreement calls for. It’s far easier for countries to sign onto an agreement on paper than it is for them to meet their pledges to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, let alone increase those ambitions over time. Scientific observers broadly agree that the individual pledges made by countries under the Paris agreement are not strong enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Even as countries have moved rapidly to ratify the Paris accord, the window for hitting the agreement’s targets is cl...