The 2015 Paris Agreement was a landmark global response to combat climate change that commits States to pursue efforts to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels, and keeping such increase “well below” 2oC.
There are more than 1,500 climate laws or policies globally. These laws, and others, like those relating to human rights, environmental protection, land use planning, corporate governance and even financial regulation, are powerful tools to change the system and protect our planet. But only if they are properly enforced.