The Paris Agreement is an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement is supported by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and entered into force on 4 November 2016. According to the UNFCCC, the agreement aims to limit temperature increases to less than 2 degrees Celsius in the twenty-first century and to promote initiatives that reduce the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less. The quality of each country on track to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement can be continuously monitored online (via the Climate Action Tracker[95] and the Climate Clock). Under the Paris Agreement, each country must define, plan and regularly report on the contribution it makes to controlling global warming. [6] No mechanism obliges a country to set a specific emissions target before a given date[8], but each target should go beyond the targets set previously. The United States formally withdrew from the deal the day after the 2020 presidential election,[9] although President-elect Joe Biden said America would join the deal after his inauguration. [10] At the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference, the Durban Platform (and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action) was created with the aim of negotiating a legal instrument for action on climate change from 2020. The resulting agreement is expected to be adopted in 2015. [62] On October 5, 2016, when the agreement received enough signatures to cross the threshold, US President Barack Obama said, “Even if we achieve every goal. We will only reach part of where we need to go. He also said that “this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change.

It will help other nations reduce their emissions over time and set bolder targets as technology advances, all under a strong transparency system that will allow each nation to assess the progress of all other nations. “[27] [28] The negotiators of the agreement stated: the INDCs presented at the time of the Paris conference were insufficient and noted with concern that the estimates of aggregate greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 and 2030, resulting from the planned national contributions, are not covered by the least costly 2°C scenarios, but result in a projected level of 55 gigatons in 2030.” and recognizing that “much greater efforts will be needed to reduce emissions in order to keep the global average temperature rise to less than 2°C by reducing emissions to 40 gigatons or 1.5°C”. [25] [Clarification required] Both the EU and its Member States are individually responsible for ratifying the Paris Agreement. . . .