these provide not only some principled stance around which efforts will coalesce but also represent a measure against which individual and collective pledges can and will be evaluated with respect to mitigation the paris agreement states two longterm temperature goals underpinned by two emissionsrelated goals it also has an adaptation goal the c target was a critical negotiating issue for the sids as many of the climate impacts anticipated even at a c global mean temperature rise are very likely to result in catastrophic damage to these states