Answer to Question #307074 in Macroeconomics for james gatare

Question

International agreements require that states sometimes sacrifices their domestic needs to honor their international responsibilities, discuss these using appropriate examples  

Answer 1

To combat climate change and its negative impacts, 197 countries adopted the Paris Agreement at COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. This agreement, which came into force less than a year later, aims to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius this century, while finding means to further limit that rise to 1.5 degrees.

To date, 189 countries have joined the Paris Agreement.

The agreement includes commitments by all countries to reduce their emissions and work together to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and encourages countries to strengthen their commitments over time