Paris Climate Accord

Definition

The Paris Climate Accord is a global agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), addressing greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020. It aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Related terms

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: These are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, contributing significantly to global warming and climate change.

UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change): An international environmental treaty adopted in 1992, aimed at combating climate change by limiting average global temperature increases and coping with impacts.

Mitigation: In the context of climate change, mitigation refers to efforts undertaken to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases; it can include using new technologies and renewable energies, making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices or consumer behavior