„A safer, safer, more prosperous and freer world.“ In December 2015, this is the world that President Barack Obama imagined when he announced that the United States, along with nearly 200 other countries, had committed to the Paris Climate Agreement, an ambitious global action plan to combat climate change. Rajamani L (2016) Ambition and differentiation in the 2015 Paris Agreement: Interpretation possibilities and underlying politics. Int Comp Law Q 65:493-514 The Paris Agreement is the world`s first comprehensive climate agreement. [15] The Paris Conference was the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as COP 21. The conference concluded a round of negotiations that opened in Durban, South Africa, in 2011, with the aim of reaching a new legal agreement between national governments to strengthen the global response to climate change. A record 150 Heads of State and Government attended the opening day of the conference. Protesters gather near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, during the 2015 UN climate conference. To ensure effective and secure participation, a global agreement on climate change must be considered fair by the countries concerned. The Paris Agreement moved closer to differentiating countries` climate change competencies by moving away from the rigid distinction between developed and developing countries by incorporating a „subtle differentiation“ of certain subgroups of countries (e.g.B.
least developed countries) for certain substantive issues (e.g.B. climate finance) and/or for certain procedures (e.g. B calendars and reporting). In this article, we analyze whether the countries of self-differentiation pursued in the formulation of their own climate plans or national contributions (NDCs) correspond to the subtle differentiation of the Paris Agreement. We find that there is coherence for reduction and adaptation, but not for aid (climate finance, technology transfer and capacity building). As DNNs are the most important instrument for achieving the long-term objectives of the Paris Agreement, this inconsistency needs to be addressed in order to make subsequent rounds of DND more ambitious. When the agreement garnered enough signatures to cross the threshold on October 5, 2016, US President Barack Obama said: „Even if we achieve every goal. We will only reach part of where we need to go. He also said that „this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change. It will help other nations reduce their emissions over time and set bolder targets as technology advances, all under a strong transparency system that will allow each nation to assess the progress of all other nations.
„[27] [28] The Paris Agreement is a pioneering environmental agreement adopted by almost all nations in 2015 to combat climate change and its negative effects. The agreement aims to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the increase in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels during this century, while pursuing ways to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. . . .