<Tr> <Th> Languages </Th> <Td> Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Paris Agreement at Wikisource </Td> </Tr> <P> The Paris Agreement (French: Accord de Paris), Paris climate accord or Paris climate agreement, is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020 . The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 196 parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015 . As of October 2017, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, and 169 have become party to it . The Agreement aims to respond to the global climate change threat by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius . </P> <P> In the Paris Agreement, each country determines, plans and regularly reports its own contribution it should make in order to mitigate global warming . There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond previously set targets . </P>

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