What is the Paris agreement?

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.