The Paris Agreement, inter alia, sets out a long-term goal in line with the objective to keep the global average temperature increase well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
I gComhaontú Pháras, inter alia, leagtar amach sprioc fhadtéarmach a thagann leis an gcuspóir an méadú ar an meánteocht dhomhanda a choimeád go mór faoi bhun 2 °C os cionn na leibhéal réamhthionsclaíoch agus leanúint de na hiarrachtaí é a choimeád faoi bhun 1.5 °C.