Paris Agreement

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a legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted by 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015 and entered into force in November 2016; the agreement's central aim is to limit global average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius; parties submit nationally determined contributions outlining their climate action plans and are subject to a transparency and accountability framework to track progress