The Paris deal is an agreement which unites all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. It aims to:

• keep global temperatures "well below" 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and "endeavour to limit" them even more, to 1.5C

• to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100

• to review each country's contribution to cutting emissions every five years so they scale up to the challenge

• for rich countries to help poorer nations by providing "climate finance" to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy.

The historic Paris Agreement provides an opportunity for countries to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. 2017 was one of the hottest years on record due to global warming, which shows something is changing, and if the people ignore, it will only get worse.

The Paris agreement, as well as its primary factors, states that countries included should:

• Come together every 5 years to set more ambitious targets as required by science; report to each other and the public on how well they are doing to implement their targets; track progress towards the long-term goal through a robust transparency and accountability system, which helps to keep the public in the loop.

• Strengthen societies' ability to deal with the impacts of climate change; provide continued and enhanced international support for adaptation to developing countries. As climate change is a global problem, it's essential that countries within the agreement continue to assist those that cannot help themselves.

• Lastly, countries should also "recognise the importance of averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change; acknowledge the need to cooperate and enhance the understanding, action and support in different areas such as early warning systems, emergency preparedness and risk insurance." This emphasis the need for everyone to work together.

Providing the basis of the agreement and the above is followed, effective action should occur.

The Paris Agreement is a global agreement on climate change. Agreed for 2015 December 12 In Paris The agreement sets out an action plan for global warming to be "significantly lower" than 2 ° C. It covers the period from 2020.

The main elements of the new Paris Agreement are:

Long-term goals: Governments have agreed to ensure that global average temperature rise is well below 2 ° C compared to pre-industrial temperatures and to make efforts to not increase by more than 1.5 ° C.

Action: before the Paris Conference and during the course of it, countries have provided comprehensive national action plans to combat climate change to reduce their emissions.

Ambitions: Governments have agreed every five years to report on their actions in order to set even more ambitious goals.

Transparency: They also agreed to inform each other and the public about how they are achieving their goals in order to ensure transparency and supervision.

Solidarity: the EU and other developed countries will continue to provide developing countries with funding for climate change to help them reduce emissions and increase resilience to climate change.

The Paris agreement is the first deal that unites all the nations on earth in tackling climate change. For the first time in history, nearly 200 countries agreed to curb greenhouse emissions. The agreement was signed on the 4th of Sept. 2016. Previously, a number of developed countries had signed the Kyoto protocol in 1997 but some countries failed to comply and the US quit. Now, the Paris Agreement is currently the only hope of curbing serious climate change. The pillars of the agreement include;

1. To keep global temperatures well below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and endeavour to limit them even more, to 1.5C
2. To limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100
3. To review each country's contribution to cutting emissions every five years so they scale up to the challenge
4. For rich countries to help poorer nations by providing climate finance to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy.