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
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Summary
Paris Agreement is a treaty[1]. It ranks in the top 0.6% of treaty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,744 views/month, #7 of 1,157).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: United Nations[3]
- Country: France[4]
- Instance of: environmental protocol[5], Climate Change Agreement[6]
- Named after: Paris[7]
- Follows: Kyoto Protocol[8]
- Location: Paris[9], New York City[10]
- Part of: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[11]
- Commons category: Paris Agreement[12]
- Language of work or name: English[13], Arabic[14], Spanish[15], Chinese[16], Russian[17], French[18]
- Has part(s): Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and the costs of delayed action[19], Global stocktake[20], enhanced transparency framework[21], Article 6 mechanisms[22], United Nations Climate Change Conference[23], five-year ambition cycle[24]
- Publication date: December 12, 2015[25]
- Point in time: December 12, 2015[26]
- Coordinate location: 48.8567, 2.3522[27]
- Authority: Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement[28]
- Has cause: global warming[29]
- Topic's main category: Category:Paris Agreement[30]
- Main subject: climate change mitigation[31], climate change adaptation[32], climate finance[33]
- Work available at URL: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf[34]
- Described at URL: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280458f37&clang=_en[35]
- Facet of: climate change[36]
- Legal form: climate change litigation[37]
- Has effect: Q98121026[38]
- Different from: Vertrag von Paris (1310)[39], Treaty of Paris[40], 1303 Treaty of Paris[41], Vertrag von Paris (1498)[42], Vertrag von Paris (1634)[43], Vertrag von Paris (1635)[44], Vertrag von Paris (1749)[45], Trattato di Parigi (22 agosto 1796)[46], Treaty of Paris in october 1796[47], Treaty of Paris, november 1796[48], Trattato di Parigi (1797)[49], Treaty of Paris (August 1801)[50], Vertrag von Paris (15. Februar 1806)[51], Pariser Vertrag (1810)[52]
Why It Matters
Paris Agreement has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[53] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[54]