Sentences with phrase «warming treaty agreement»

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A prime point of the proposed agreement, of course, is to achieve the longstanding goal of avoiding dangerous warming, set out in the foundational treaty in 1992.

The Paris Agreement, a treaty intended to slow global warming, limits fossil emissions and forest clearing in order to keep the planet from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, and possibly to keep the rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

A New York Times / CBS News poll conducted shortly before the agreement was reached found that 66 percent of Americans think the United States should «join an international treaty requiring America to reduce emissions in an effort to fight global warming.»