The Paris agreement is at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures. It came into force on 4 November 2016 and saw almost all the nations of the world agree to ... The Paris Climate Agreement is a treaty that brings all the world’s peoples into a common effort to combat climate change. Negotiated under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, a unit of the United Nations, it is the result of 20 years of international effort. The agreement was opened for signature on 22 April 2016 in New York. On 5 October 2016, the threshold for entry into force was achieved and the Paris Agreement entered into force on 4 November 2016. Paris Agreement is the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. Although developed and developing countries were parties to Kyoto Protocol, developing countries were not mandated to reduce their emissions.
