Full Title: The Paris Climate Agreement
Author(s): Gwynne Taraska
Publisher(s): Center for American Progress
Publication Date: December 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
After four years of negotiations, nations succeeded in forging a global, legally binding agreement to address climate change when they convened in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. “I am proud of my generation, of your generation, which has been able to decide to act for a world that we will not see,” said French President François Hollande during the conference’s closing session. He continued:
The 12th of December 2015 will go down in the history of the planet. In Paris, we have seen a few revolutions over the last few centuries. But today, this is the most beautiful and peaceful revolution that has just been achieved, a revolution for climate change.
Several aspects of the design of the Paris agreement have positioned it to become an effective tool for limiting global greenhouse gas pollution and improving resilience to the effects of climate change.