Adopted on 12 December 2015 by 196 parties at the COP21 climate conference, the Paris Agreement committed the world to holding warming well below two degrees Celsius while pursuing 1.5. Because roughly three quarters of greenhouse gas emissions come from energy, the agreement became the organizing goal of the global energy transition, the benchmark against which national energy policies are now measured.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Paris Agreement, international treaty, named for the city of Paris, France, in which it was adopted in December 2015, which aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming.
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the Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005
Paris Agreement (Wikipedia)
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The Paris Agreement (also called the Paris Accords or Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016.
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