The Senate approved on Wednesday, 8 February 2017 the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The agreement is in effect since 4 November 2016, after it was ratified by more than 100 of the 195 countries that participated in the December 2015 discussions for the global pact during the Twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and – for the first time – brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so. As such, it charts a new course in the global climate effort.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change. To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate financial flows, a new technology framework and an enhanced capacity building framework will be put in place, thus supporting action by developing countries and the most vulnerable countries, in line with their own national objectives. The Agreement also provides for enhanced transparency of action and support through a more robust transparency framework.
Read more on the Paris Agreement at:
http://bigpicture.unfccc.int/#content-the-paris-agreemen
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10 February 2017
