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''Climate risk management.''
''Climate risk management.''


The Paris Agreement is an international agreement of 2015 to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.  
The Paris Climate Agreement is an international agreement of 2015 to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.  


The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise in the 21st century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Paris Climate Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change.
 
 
Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius - preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius - compared with pre-industrial levels.




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* [[Climate risk]]
* [[Climate risk]]
* [[Nationally determined contribution]]
* [[Nationally determined contribution]]
* [[Paris-aligned Benchmark]]  (PAB)
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]]
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]]

Latest revision as of 13:00, 12 February 2022

Climate risk management.

The Paris Climate Agreement is an international agreement of 2015 to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.

The Paris Climate Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change.


Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius - preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius - compared with pre-industrial levels.


The Paris Climate Agreement is also known as the Paris Agreement, the Paris Accords, or the Paris Climate Accords.


See also