The Paris Agreement was an agreement among the leaders of more than 170 countries to reduce gas emissions and limit the global temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
COP stands for Conference of the Parties,the conference was not the first conference between nations but it was the 21st conference, the Paris Agreement called for a balance of climate finance between adaptation with taking into account the need to increase adaptation support for parties most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States.
The agreement's language was negotiated by representatives of each countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Le Bourget, France, and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015. The process of translating the Paris Agreement into national agendas and implementation has started.
Answer: a global agreement on the reduction of climate change
Explanation: COP21 Paris Climate Conference was the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, that was held in Paris, France from 30 November to 12 December 2015. The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. As of February 2020, all UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, 189 have become party to it, and the only significant emitters which are not parties are Iran and Turkey.
The long-term temperature goal of this agreement is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing that this would substantially reduce the overall risks and impacts of climate change.
“Global age” refers to a period of time when there is a prevailing sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings, of a common fate for the human species and of a threat to its life on this Earth.
