Progress Of Paris Agreement
To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. The agreement entered into force less than a year later. In the agreement, all countries agreed to limit the increase in global temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to target 1.5 degrees Celsius due to the serious risks. The Paris Agreement is the first universal and legally binding global agreement on climate change adopted at the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) in December 2015. Not only does the agreement formalise the process of drawing up national plans, but it also includes a binding obligation to assess and verify progress in these plans. This mechanism will require countries to continuously improve their commitments and ensure that there will be no backsliding. It consolidates international cooperation in the field of climate change. It offers a path forward. The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific analysis carried out by two research organisations that have been monitoring the fight against climate change since 2009. We are monitoring progress towards the overall goal of keeping warming well below 2°C and monitoring efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
The EU and its Member States are among the nearly 190 parties to the Paris Agreement. The EU formally ratified the agreement on 5 October 2016, allowing it to enter into force on 4 November 2016. For the agreement to enter into force, at least 55 countries, which have escaped at least 55% of global emissions, had to deposit their instruments of ratification.
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