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).