The Paris Agreement is adopted at COP21

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1. Story
2. The twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change adopts the Paris Agreement at Le Bourget, near Paris. Its temperature goal is to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to one and a half degrees. Its architecture is the significant part for this Journey: unlike the Kyoto Protocol it assigns no allocated targets, and instead requires each party to submit a nationally determined contribution, to update it periodically on a ratcheting cycle, and to report against it. There is no enforcement mechanism and no penalty for missing a contribution. The agreement is therefore a transparency and ratchet instrument rather than a compliance one — a design choice that made universal participation possible and made delivery a domestic political question in every signatory state.
3. Knowledge
4. The electrified share of final energy
5. The Paris Agreement is adopted at COP21
6. The Paris Agreement enters into force
7. Connections
8. The Paris Agreement enters into force
9. The electrified share of final energy
10. The first calendar year above 1.5 °C above pre-industrial
11. United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement takes effect
12. The Paris Agreement is adopted at COP21
13. The electrified share of final energy
14. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
15. Aviation
16. International shipping
17. The electric heat pump
18. The Paris Agreement is adopted at COP21
19. The Paris Agreement enters into force
20. The first calendar year above 1.5 °C above pre-industrial
21. United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement takes effect
22. Evidence
23. Supports the temperature goal formulation, the nationally determined contribution architecture with its ratchet and transparency provisions, the absence of any enforcement mechanism, and the entry-into-force and withdrawal procedures. V55 verification basis: the treaty text was not retrieved in this session; the decision reference is given without the full UN document symbol because that symbol could not be confirmed, and no article is quoted verbatim.