its central objective is to keep the global average temperature rise well below c above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to c above preindustrial levels unfccc article a the paris agreement was concluded on overtime and signed by over countries of the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc at the st conference of parties cop the paris agreement offers a political framework for implementing the goals in the agreement through voluntary national climate plans national determined contribution ndcs submitted by the states