Consider the following statements about UNFCC : I

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About UNFCCC Effective : 21 March 1994 UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change . The Convention has near universal membership ( 198 Parties ) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement . The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1 . 5 degrees Celsius above pre - industrial levels . The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol . The secretariat was established in 1992 when countries adopted the UNFCCC . The original secretariat was in Geneva . Since 1996, the secretariat has been located in Bonn, Germany .