{"id":24628,"date":"2024-02-08T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24628"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:26:19","slug":"what-is-the-paris-climate-agreement-and-why-does-15c-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/08\/what-is-the-paris-climate-agreement-and-why-does-15c-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Paris Climate Agreement and why does 1.5C matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the EU climate service, for the first time global warming has exceeded 1.5 \u00b0C for an entire year. Maintaining long-term <!--more-->keeping temperatures below this level is considered crucial if the most devastating impacts of climate change are to be avoided.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Paris Agreement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, world leaders pledged to try to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the nations of the world - for the first time - have agreed to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris Agreement, which was adopted on December 12, 2015 in the capital of France by 194 parties (193 countries plus the EU), entered into force on November 4, 2016.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a class=\"link\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-24021772?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:A simple guide to climate change;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"3\" data-v9y=\"1\">A simple guide to climate change<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a class=\"link\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-d6338d9f-8789-4bc2-b6d7-3691c0e7d138?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:What will climate change look like near me?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"4\" data-v9y=\"1\">What will climate change look like near me?<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What did the Paris Agreement say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agreement contains a series of commitments:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>&quot;Continue efforts&quot; to limit the rise in global temperature to\u00a0<strong>1.5 \u00b0C<\/strong>\u00a0and keep them\u00a0<strong>&quot;well below&quot; 2.0\u00b0C<\/strong>\u00a0above those recorded in pre-industrial times<\/li>\n<li>Limit greenhouse gas emissions from human activity to the same level that can be naturally absorbed by trees, soil and oceans \u2013 known as\u00a0<strong>net zero<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 between 2050 and 2100<\/li>\n<li>Each country sets its own emission reduction targets, which are reviewed every five years with a target\u00a0<strong>raise ambitions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Richer countries will help poorer nations by providing funds known as\u00a0<strong>climate financing<\/strong>\u00a0, to adapt to climate change and transition to renewable energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"caas-da\">\n<div id=\"sda-INARTICLE\">The 1.5C target is widely accepted as a 20-year average rather than a single year. (<em>Esme Stallard - climate and science reporter, more at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-24021772?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> BBC News<\/span> )<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the EU climate service, for the first time global warming has exceeded 1.5 \u00b0C for an entire year. Maintaining long-term<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}