Flexible outlook essential for cutting Paris’s carbon footprint

Virtually every major city is duty-bound to cut its emissions. However, there is one that may naturally be held to a higher standard: the French capital. The 2016 Paris Agreement has been signed by 195 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) members, with 186 having become party to it. The overall goal is to restrict the global average temperature increase to pre-industrial levels of 1.5 degrees Celsius. It has prompted reaction from across the world, and in the country in which it was first drafted in 2015, there has been a huge change.