Paris Agreement: What consists, countries and objectives

The Paris Agreement was presented during the XXI Conference on Climate Change (Commonly known as COP 21), held in the French capital on December 15, 2015. In this agreement, numerous countries around the world presented their desire and effort to realize the different objectives that were proposed within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They recognized the need and emergency of a progressive and as effective as possible towards the Threat of climate change and the repercussions that it entails (and will entail) both in developed, development and less developed countries.

In addition, the priority of protecting food security worldwide was very present, making special emphasis on those food production systems that suffer the adverse effects of climate change, such as agriculture, beekeeping, livestock and fishing.

In the next sections we expose both the different Signatory countries of the Paris Agreementas the important objectives that marked as action goals.

A total of 174 countries and the European Union They signed, through their political representatives and/or permanent representatives in the UN, the Paris Agreement.

The official list of countries participating in the Paris Agreement It includes numerous African countries such as Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, Namibia, etc; as well as countries of North America (USA), South America (Peru, Paraguay, Argentina) and Central America (El Salvador, Cuba, etc.), numerous Asian countries (Singapore, Cambodia, India, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, etc.) and Australia and New Zealand, representing the Oceania continent, also signed the Paris Agreement.

Through their signature, each and every one of the countries that participated in the Paris Agreement, presented their consent and commitment to the measures and objectives that were presented in said agreement. In the following section of this article we will deepen the main objectives of the Paris Agreement, thus detailing its environmental characteristics and approaches.

The different countries participating in the Paris Agreement confirmed their support and response to the threat that climate change presents worldwide. Thus, in a context oriented towards sustainable development and eradication of poverty, main objectives of the Paris Agreement are:

• Maintain the increase in the average global temperature below 2 ° C, trying to limit said increase to 1.5 ºC (with respect to the temperature levels existing in the pre -industrial period). In this way, the possible effects of climate change will be reduced, such as the rise in the temperature of the marine and oceanic waters, the thaw of the poles and consequent rise in sea level, as well as sudden changes in the environmental phenomena associated with seasonal changes.
• Promote resilience to climatic changes, that is, increase the ability to adapt and reaction to possible (present and future effects) that will lead to climate change.
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and guarantee healthy and optimal food production.
• Orient financial flows towards sustainable economies (circular, blue and green economies), always focused on sustainable development.

These ambitious objectives presented by the Paris Agreement, would apply reflecting the equity and common responsibilities of the particles participating in said agreement, thus differentiating the various capacities and circumstances of development of each nation, since they do not have the same level of contamination and emission of greenhouse gases worldwide, nations as developed as the Chinese or American mega -industria, with respect to small countries as more impoverished, as Haiti or Ghana.

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