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Finalise the Paris Rulebook for the Paris Agreement.States that have not yet committed themselves must pledge their new climate ambitions, by updating their nationally determined contributions and publishing long-term strategies for 2050. It also committed to become climate neutral in 2050 from 2019. In December 2020, the EU updated and enhanced its NDC of at least a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared to 1990. In December 2018, the Katowice climate package, which was adopted during COP24 in Poland, implemented shared and detailed rules, modalities and procedures to execute the Paris Agreement. Since then, it has been ratified by 192 countries, with Turkey being the last country to ratify it in 2021. In 2016, France and the European Union ratified the Agreement, which came into force on the 4th of November 2016. The Agreement includes an upward revision of these national contributions every five years.

In advance of COP21, each country had to present its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). It is also the Paris Agreement that sets the targets that countries set for themselves to reduce their GHG emissions, i.e. The Paris Agreement’s aim is to keep a global temperature below 2☌, and if possible 1.5☌, above pre-industrial levels. On the 12th of December 2015, during COP21, the Paris Agreement was adopted.
