Paris Agreement
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The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. As of June 2017, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, 148 of which have ratified it.
In the Paris Agreement, each country determines its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate global warming. There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date.
On 1 June 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the agreement and seek a new deal. In a joint statement, France, Germany and Italy rejected the American call to reopen climate talks and 10 U.S. states joined the United States Climate Alliance in response.
The House of Representatives of the Netherlands passed a bill in June 2018 mandating that by 2050 the Netherlands will cut its 1990 greenhouse-gas emissions level by 95%—exceeding the Paris Agreement goals.
See also
- Air pollution
- Net capacity factor
- Carbon footprint
- Copenhagen Accord
- Environmental politics
- IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
- Politics of global warming
- International Solar Alliance
