The Paris Agreement of 2015 aims to hold the rise in global average temperature to:
- A.Well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees
- B.Exactly 3 degrees Celsius above present levels
- C.Below 5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
- D.Zero increase over the level of the year 2000
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Explanation
The correct answer is A. The Paris Agreement was adopted at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties in 2015 and entered into force in 2016. Its central aim is to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to one and a half degrees. Every party submits a Nationally Determined Contribution stating its own targets, which are to be reviewed and strengthened over time.
Option B is wrong both in the figure and in the baseline, since the agreement measures the rise from pre-industrial levels and not from the present. Option C names a level far beyond anything the agreement contemplates; a five degree rise is the kind of outcome it exists to prevent. Option D is wrong because no treaty has promised zero further warming from a year two thousand baseline, which is not physically achievable given the warming already committed.
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