The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) took place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, France.
The “UNFCCC”, was adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992.
The Paris agreement provides a pathway forward to limit temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, maybe even 1.5.
The Conference of the Parties is the supreme decision-making body of the UNFCCC.
It meets yearly to take decisions that will make the objectives for the climate achievable.
As of Dec. 2020, 194 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, and 189 have become a party to it.
The Paris Agreement is a replacement for the 2005 Kyoto Protocol.