History Paris Treaty

Paris treaty

The Paris Agreement is a landmark environmental accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. The deal aims to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, while pursuing means to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. The agreement includes commitments from all major emitting countries to cut their climate-altering pollution and to strengthen those commitments over time. The pact provides a pathway for developed nations to assist developing nations in their climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, and it creates a framework for the transparent monitoring, reporting, and ratcheting up of countries’ individual and collective climate goals. (NRDC) President Obama entered into the Paris treaty in 2016.

Obama didn’t need permission or a vote due to the fact there were laws already in place to cut carbon dioxide pollution. Obama signed the treaty through executive action. The Paris Agreement could not take effect until at least 55 nations representing at least 55 percent of global emissions had formally joined. This happened on October 5, 2016, and the agreement went into force 30 days later on November 4, 2016. ((Denchak 2019). Paris Treaty has 197 countries the only major emitting countries that have yet to formally join the agreement are Russia, Turkey, and Iran. In 2018 the trump administration backed out of the Paris treaty.