Highlights of the Paris Agreement

On Dec. 12, 2015, 195 countries gathered in the French capital toconclude the world's first universal climate treaty, the Paris Agreement, aimed at preventing worst-case scenarios for global warming.Nations agreed to hold global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, and to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius.The lower goal was a demand of poor countries and island states at high risk of climate change effects such as rising sea lev