IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS AGREEMENT - COP23
At the COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, a global agreement was reached which contains goals and mechanisms for responding to climate change and binding obligations for all Parties. The Paris Agreement sets a long-term goal of limiting the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, and of pursuing efforts to limit this temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C. It also includes the goal to increase the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions. In order to achieve these goals, the Paris Agreement requires all Parties to undertake efforts towards reaching global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and towards achieving a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks (“carbon neutrality”) in the second half of the 21st century.
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Lorenz MOOSMANN, Henrik NEIER, Nicole MANDL, Klaus RADUNSKY, Tina OHLIGER
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- adaptation to climate change
- air and space transport
- air transport
- America
- Asia and Oceania
- China
- deterioration of the environment
- economic geography
- ENERGY
- energy policy
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- EU energy policy
- GEOGRAPHY
- global warming
- international affairs
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- maritime and inland waterway transport
- maritime transport
- political geography
- reduction of gas emissions
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- United States
- withdrawal from an agreement