Paris Agreement temperature goal – UGC NET Question

The Paris Agreement specifies the long term goal of holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees. The stem explicitly uses the phrase “well below” and then mentions pursuing efforts for 1.5 degrees,which confirms that the blank should be 2. Therefore Option C is the correct choice.

Option A:
A target of 1 degree is not the stated “well below” threshold in the Paris Agreement and does not appear as the main temperature limit in its text.

Option B:
1.5 degrees is included in the Paris Agreement as an aspirational effort goal (“pursuing efforts to limit to 1.5”),but it is not the number that follows “well below” in the main clause.

Option C:
The 2 degree figure is the key reference point in the Paris Agreement: parties agreed to keep warming well below 2°C and pursue efforts toward 1.5°C. This matches the stem exactly.

Option D:
4 degrees is far above agreed limits and is associated with dangerous warming scenarios,not the Paris temperature goal.