Paris Agreement

international agreement from 12 December 2015 within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020

The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.[1] It planned to reduce greenhouse gases. It also looked at ways countries could change to deal with problems caused by climate change, and have countries promise to spend money to make sure this would happen. The agreement was signed in Paris in 2016, by 197 countries.

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  1. United Nations Climate Change, 'The Paris Agreement', https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

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