; (8) in Paris, on December 12, 2015, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Paris Agreement, a benchmark agreement— (A) to combat climate change; and (B) to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future; (9) the Paris Agreement, to which the United States is a party, acknowledges, Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity ; (10) the Paris Agreement— (A) notes the importance of climate justice when mitigating and adapting to climate change; and (B) recognizes the need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change ; (11) it is imperative for all countries to undertake mitigation activities to rapidly meet the goal of limiting global warming to not more than 1.5 degrees Celsius; (12) developed countries have the greatest capacity to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions, while— (A) developing countries have the least capacity to engage in mitigation activities; and (B) the capacity of developing countries to engage in mitigation activities is less than the national mitigation potential of those developing countries; (13) the determination for the fair share of mitigation and adaptation activities for each country must take into account— (A) the historic greenhouse gas emissions of each country; and (B) the current capacity of each country to both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate impacts