The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris is the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. It contains 29 articles. Article 4 paragraph 1 declares that, "In order to achieve the long-term temperature goal set out in Article 2, Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with best available science, so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, on the basis of equity, and in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty."