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.
Angela Bagni
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