ABSTRACT
On December 12, 2015, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change was adopted by the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. The goal is to hold the increase in global average tempera ture to less than 2°C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit
CONTENTS
10.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 115 10.2 Paris Agreement on Climate Change ..................................................... 115 10.3 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals .................................. 116 10.4 Complexity of Sustainable Development ............................................... 118 10.5 Conclusions ................................................................................................. 121 References ............................................................................................................. 121
the increase to 1.5°C. The parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and a balance between anthropogenic emissions and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century (UNFCCC, 2015).
