The 2 °C Global Temperature Target and the Evolution of the Long-Term Goal of Addressing Climate Change—From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the Paris Agreement

• Published in: Engineering (Beijing, China) Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 272 - 278
• Main Authors: Gao, Yun, Gao, Xiang, Zhang, Xiaohua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: Climate change; Critical vulnerability; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; International negotiation; Intuitive building; Long-term goal; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Climate change; International negotiation; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Critical vulnerability; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Long-term goal; Intuitive building

The Paris Agreement proposed to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. It was thus the first international treaty to endow the 2 °C global temperatur...