The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 195 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. The Paris agreement is at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures. It came into force on 4 November 2016 and saw almost all the nations of the world agree to ... 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, What is the Paris Agreement? The Paris Agreement is an international treaty which legally binds its signatories to act to fight climate change. For the first time ever, in 2015, governments jointly agreed on a major collective effort to limit global warming and address its impacts.
