The Paris Climate Agreement is an international agreement adopted in 2016 at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The agreement seeks to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference near Paris, France. As of January 2026, 194 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are parties to the agreement. Of the three UNFCCC member states which have not ratified the agreement, the only major emitter is Iran. The United States, the second largest emitter, withdrew from the agreement in 2020, rejoined in 2021, and withdrew again in 2026.