With reference to the Agreement at the UNFCCC Meeting in Paris in 2015, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. The Agreement was signed by all the member countries of the UN and it will go into effect in 2017.
2. The Agreement aims to limit the greenhouse gas emissions so that the rise in average global
temperature by the end of this century does not exceed 2oC or even 1.50C above pre-industrial levels.
3. Developed countries acknowledged their historical responsibility in global warming and committed to donate $ 1000 billion a year from 2020 to help developing countries to cope with climate change.
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Explanation
21st Conference of Parties (COP21) also known as Paris Agreement successfully concluded in
Paris under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The
agreement is scheduled to go into effect from 2020. (Statement 1 is not correct).
One of the main focus of the agreement is to hold the increase in the global average
temperature to well below 2C above pre- industrial level and on driving efforts to limit it even
further to 1.5C. It covers all the crucial areas identified as essential for a comprehensive and
balanced agreement, including mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology
development and transfer, capacity building and transparency of action and support. A marked
departure from the past is the Agreements bottom-up approach, allowing each nation to submit
its own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, rather than trying to repeat a topdown
approach advocated by the Kyoto Protocol, giving each country an emission reduction
target. Statement 3 is not correct. Tikdam: 1st statement has all countries has red flag. So pause and think. But even 2017 date is wrong
3rd statement is clearly incorrect as it’s always the point of contention. They never acknowldge their historical responsibilty.