COP21 Paris agreement (COP21巴黎协定)

According to UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), the COP21 Paris agreement (COP21巴黎协定 bā lí xié dìng) is a treaty aiming at strengthening the global response to “the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius”.

Part 1: Breakdown of Words

• “巴黎” (bā lí) is the transliteration of the capital of France, “Paris”.
• “Agreement” (协定 xié dìng) as in “free trade agreement” (自由贸易协定 zì yóu mào yì xié dìng), “General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade” (关税与贸易总协定 guān shuì yǔ mào yì zǒng xié dìng).
  • “协” (xié) as in “association” (协会 xié huì), “concord” (协和 xié hé), or “protocol” (协议 xié yì).
  • “定” (dìng) as in “sure/confirmed” (确定 què dìng), “regular/periodical” (定期 dìng qī), or “definition” (定义 dìng yì).