FAQs about the Paris Agreement 

2. When will the Paris Agreement come into force?

There are several key dates to understand the chronology of the Paris Agreement:

  1. It was negotiated in December 2015, within the framework of COP 21, Conference of the Parties on Climate Change.
  2. On April 22, 2016, Earth Day, your signature began.
  3. On November 3, 2016, it entered into force, upon reaching the signature of 55% of the countries responsible for CO2 emissions.
  4. In 2018, prior meeting of the signatory countries to update and refine their plans with a view to 2020, year of the beginning of the agreements.
  5. In 2020, year of beginning of its application.
  6. In 2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

7. 2100, target year to reduce to zero the emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG)

Other sections of the Paris Agreement

Are the objectives of the Paris Agreement realistic?

Never before had humanity reached an agreement as advanced as that of Paris. Never before has it been so close as now to take concrete action to prevent Global Warming from continuing its increase. It should also be noted that for the first time such terms as those of the Paris Agreement, sponsored by the UN, UNFCCC, were accepted by almost all countries on Earth. However, one issue is the good intentions, the spirit and letter of the agreements and another reality that is observed in practice, as has been seen in the past, whose most regrettable exponent was the failure of the Kyoto Protocol…

Read more…

Never had an agreement like that of Paris been obtained

The Paris Agreement is an ambitious global agreement to combat climate change, negotiated during COP21, Paris 2015, Twenty-first Conference of the Parties, on climate change. The ground-breaking document has been adopted by 197 countries and officially signed on April 22, 2016, Earth Day, and will come into force in 2020. It is planned to limit the increase in global temperature to 2 ° C, to Starting from the pre-industrial era, through the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, caused by fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal, among others…

Read more…

Infographics

Photo Gallery

Video Gallery