The Paris Agreement of 2015 was adopted under which parent convention?

The Convention on Biological DiversityCorrect answerYour answerThe UN Framework Convention on Climate ChangeCorrect answerYour answerThe Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone LayerCorrect answerYour answerThe UN Convention to Combat DesertificationCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

The Paris Agreement was adopted at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Framework Convention, agreed at the Rio summit of 1992, sets the structure; the agreements under it set the commitments.
That is why the meetings are numbered as COPs of the Convention rather than of the Agreement.

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Three of the four options are real conventions, and all came out of the same period. The climate one is the Framework Convention; the ozone one is Vienna, which is a separate treaty entirely.

Concept: The Paris Agreement and the convention it sits under
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The Paris Agreement of 2015 was adopted under which parent convention?

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