The Paris Agreement: Mitigating Global Warming Through Binding National Commitments

ns Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2022). The agreement set in motion measures to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industry levels by encouraging the contributions of member countries towards this goal. The 2 degrees threshold is considered critical above which there would be irreversible effects on life and ecosystems on the planet. To prevent such extents of global warming, the agreement intended to reduce the increase by well below two degrees with the goal...