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What is the Paris Agreement and its impact on climate governance ?
The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming and represents a unified effort by countries worldwide to address climate change. Key features include long-term goals, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), adaptation measures, loss and damage mechanisms, financial support, and transparency frameworks. The agreement has impacted climate governance by promoting global cooperation, enhancing political commitment, providing flexibility in NDCs, establishing financial mechanisms, ensuring transparency, recognizing loss and damage, integrating policies, involving the private sector, and raising public awareness. Despite implementation challenges, the Paris Agreement has set the stage for concerted action on climate change.