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Which temperature limit did the Paris Agreement seek to keep global warming below?
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Paris Agreement
(From left) José Gurría, Justin Trudeau, Enrique Peña Nieto, Jim Yong Kim, François Hollande, Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, and Hailemariam Desalegn during the 2015 UN climate change conference that resulted in the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Agreement aims to hold the increase in global temperatures to "well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels" and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).1
While the initial objective of the United Nations conference was to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 °C above the benchmark set before the Industrial Revolution, the final agreement incorporated the more ambitious 1.5 °C target advocated by many nations, particularly those threatened by rising sea levels.21