Paris Agreement
- Corporate Author
- United Nations (UN)
- Collation
- 25 p.
- Resource Language
- EnglishFrenchSpanishArabicChinese
- Year of publication
- 2015
- Topic
- Civic / Citizenship / DemocracyHuman rightsGlobalisation and social justice / International understandingPeace / Culture of peaceSustainable development / Sustainability
- Level of education
- Early childhood care and educationPrimary educationSecondary educationHigher educationLifelong learningTechnical and vocational education and trainingNon-formal education
- Region
- Global
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016.
Its overarching goal is to hold โthe increase in the global average temperature to well below 2ยฐC above pre-industrial levelsโ and pursue efforts โto limit the temperature increase to 1.5ยฐC above pre-industrial levels.โ
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