… to be responsive to outcomes of consultation. 1.2 BACKGROUND 1.2.1. In December 2015, the Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 nations at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and included the aim of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change by “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well…
… below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” 1.2.2. Shortly after the Paris Agreement, UNFCCC invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – and leading world body for assessing the science related to climate change – to produce: Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special report…