In this sense, it cannot and does not seek to be a detailed master plan for decades to come. The Paris Conference set the global climate change efforts on a completely new and ambitious footing: all 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed on a common goal and ap- proach to combatting climate change. We intend to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and are aiming to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Back in 2010 Ã¢ÂÂ well before the Paris Conference Ã¢ÂÂ the German government decided to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 to 95 percent compared with 1990 levels by 2050.