Paris Agreement definition

Paris Agreement means a legally binding global climate change agreement, adopted on 12 December 2015 at the Paris climate conference (COP21) and which entered into force on 4 November 2016.
Paris Agreement. ’ means the Paris Agreement adopted by the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015, and ratified by the Republic on 1 November 2016;
Paris Agreement means the agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, adopted in December, 2015, which was formally ratified by the EU in October, 2016 and which entered into force on 4 November 2016.

Examples of Paris Agreement in a sentence

  • The development of processes, procedures and institutional requirements to enable participation in cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement will be informed by the Paris Agreement Rules and the criteria outlined below in this Article.

  • It is anticipated that the negotiation of a legally binding bilateral Framework Agreement will include provisions addressing the mechanisms by which the Parties intend to cooperate to utilize robust standards and procedures for monitoring, reporting and verification which will enable both Parties to comply with their reporting obligations under the Paris Agreement as well as avoid double counting, promote environmental integrity and transparency.

  • The Paris Agreement reached in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to keep the global mean temperature increase to 2°C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to further limit temperature increase to 1.5°C.

  • The Parties acknowledges that participation in the cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement is voluntary.

  • The Parties maintain the right to engage in cooperative approaches described under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement with any and all other parties.


More Definitions of Paris Agreement

Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted on 12 December 2015 and which entered into force on 4 November 2016 as may be adjusted or amended from time to time, as further elaborated on by relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties and the CMA;
Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement under the Convention, as ratified by the Law on ratification of the Paris Agreement;
Paris Agreement means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883.
Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, U.N. Doc. FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev/1 (Dec. 12, 2015).
Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement, ratified by Papua New Guinea on September 21, 2016 and which entered into force on November 4, 2016;
Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement adopted at Paris on 12 December 2015;