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The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change under the (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC). It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. The signatory States committed to holding the increase in global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.