With reference to the Agreement at the UNFCCC Meeting in Paris in 2015

With reference to the Agreement at the UNFCCC Meeting in Paris in 2015, which of the following statements is/are correct?

  • 1. The Agreement was signed by all the member countries of the UN and it will go into effect in 2017.
  • 2. The Agreement aims to limit the greenhouse gas emissions so that the rise in average global temperature by the end of this century does not exceed 2°C or even 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
  • 3. Developed countries acknowledged their historical responsibility in global warming and committed to donate $ 1000 billion a year from 2020 to help developing countries to cope with climate change.

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1 and 3 only
2 only
2 and 3 only
1, 2 and 3
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UPSC IAS – 2016
Statement 2 is correct. The Paris Agreement aims to limit the rise in average global temperature by the end of this century to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
The central aim of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change 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.
Statement 1 is incorrect. While the Agreement was adopted by 195 parties to the UNFCCC in Paris, not every UN member country signed it immediately upon adoption, and its entry into force was on 4 November 2016, triggered by ratification thresholds (55 parties accounting for at least 55% of global GHG emissions), not a fixed date like 2017 for all. Statement 3 is incorrect. Developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020 for climate action in developing countries, not $1000 billion.
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