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Towards a Sustainable Future

Paris Agreement: The historical convention for global warming reduction

Climate change is becoming more and more more intense and longer. These include ways to protect
critical and is often the cause of severe natural agricultural and food products that may be affected
disasters. It damages people's livelihoods, by inclement weather.
economies, and societies and obstructs the The Paris Agreement is an important
progress of sustainable development. Therefore, the milestone that indicates the alertness of
international community has partnered to fight governments, the private sector, and people in each
and cope with the situation with an urgent global country. Each country must present its greenhouse
mission under a historical mutual agreement, The gas reduction targets to the global community, known
Paris Agreement. The deal is under the United as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This is in an attempt to prevent disasters caused by
(UNFCCC), which members have reached a the climate change crisis, taking into account the
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consensus at the 21 Annual Conference of Parties capabilities of each country. The NDC proposal is
(COPS) or COP21 in 2015 in Paris, France, to cover required to be updated every five years to demonstrate
various matters; in particular, the Greenhouse Gas progress and reflect the efforts and responsibility of
Mitigation aiming at keeping the average global the world together.
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temperature rise in this century to be less than 2 The 26 UN Climate Change Conference of
degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era. the Parties (COP26), to be held in Glasgow, Scotland,
The agreement also sets a higher goal to keep global in November 2021, is expected to accelerate the
temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. In implementation of each country's announced plans,
addition, the Paris Agreement sets adaptation goals demonstrating its commitment to carbon neutrality
as guidelines for dealing with threats from global and achieving the goal of reducing global warming
warming, such as sea-level rise and wildfires getting under the Paris Agreement.

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