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Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding UNFCCC climate treaty adopted by 195 Parties at COP21 on 12 December 2015, in force 4 November 2016, with 194 Parties as of January 2026. It sets goals of well below 2°C, pursuing 1.5°C, via five-year NDCs, transparency, and global stocktakes.
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment
The Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) is a free, open-source tool introduced in 2018 that measures the alignment of financial portfolios with climate decarbonization scenarios.
Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show, formally the Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, is a biennial aerospace, space, and defense trade show at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, founded in 1909.
Paris Arbitral Award
The Paris Arbitral Award is the 1899 decision that fixed the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela, granting land east of the Essequibo River to Britain.
Paris Campbell Grace
Paris Campbell Grace, born Yolande Paris Campbell, is an American comedian and former Apple repair technician known for a viral 2022 TikTok about iPhone security.
Paris Club
The Paris Club (Club de Paris) is an informal group of 22 official bilateral creditors that has negotiated debt restructurings for over 100 countries since 1956.
Paris Codex
The Paris Codex (Códice de París), also called the Codex Peresianus, is a fragmentary pre-Hispanic Maya manuscript held in Paris, containing katun prophecies and almanacs.
Paris Commune
Paris Commune (Commune de Paris), revolutionary government ruling Paris March 18 to May 28, 1871, proclaimed at the Hôtel de Ville after the Franco-Prussian War; crushed in the Bloody Week with at least 10,000 dead.
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Convention de Paris), 1883 WIPO treaty on patents, trademarks, designs, and unfair competition; national treatment, 12/6-month priority right, 181 members, revised six times through Stockholm 1967.
Paris de Grassis
Paris de Grassis (Paride de' Grassi, c. 1460–1528) was a Bolognese canonist and master of papal ceremonies from 1506, and Bishop of Pesaro from 1513.
Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law, adopted 16 April 1856 after the Crimean War by seven powers including Britain, France, Russia, and Turkey, abolished privateering, protected neutral goods except contraband, and required effective blockades; the United States never acceded.
Paris derby
Paris derby: PSG versus Paris FC, the two Paris clubs that were one club from the 1970 merger until the 1972 split. First top-flight meetings 1978; revived in Ligue 1 in 2025-26, with one win each and a Paris FC Coupe de France upset.
Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week (Semaine de la mode de Paris) is the ready-to-wear fashion show series held seasonally in Paris, run by the FHCM since 1973.
Paris FC
Paris FC (Paris Football Club), French club founded 1969, merged with Stade Saint-Germanois to form PSG in 1970, split 1972; Arnault family and Red Bull owned; promoted to Ligue 1 in 2025.
Paris green
Paris green, also called emerald green, is a copper arsenite pigment first made in 1814, later used as an insecticide until banned for its toxicity.
Paris Gun
The Paris Gun, also called the Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz, was a German long-range artillery piece built by Krupp that shelled Paris from March to August 1918.
Paris Has Fallen
Paris Has Fallen is a 2024 eight-episode political-action thriller TV series spin-off of the Has Fallen film franchise, created by Howard Overman, premiering on Canal+ (23 September 2024) and Hulu (6 December 2024), starring Tewfik Jallab and Ritu Arya.
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton, American media personality and great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, rose to fame via The Simple Life (2003) and a 2004 sex tape; now a DJ, CEO of 11:11 Media, and troubled-teen industry reform advocate.
Paris in World War II
Paris in World War II: German occupation of the French capital, 14 June 1940 to 25 August 1944, under the Vichy regime and the Gestapo de Paris; covers the open-city entry, Jewish persecution and deportation, and the August 1944 Liberation.
Paris Independent School District
Paris Independent School District (Paris ISD) is a public school district in Lamar County, East Texas, serving about 3,868 students across eight campuses, with TEA ratings of B (80) in 2025-26 and headquarters at 1920 Clarksville Street, Paris.
Paris Is Burning (film)
Paris Is Burning (1990) is Jennie Livingston's 76-minute documentary on New York's Harlem drag-ball scene, its houses, voguing, and slang; Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, 2016 National Film Registry honoree, subject of lasting representation controversies.
Paris Jackson
Paris Jackson (Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, born 1998) is an American singer-songwriter, model, and actress, daughter of Michael Jackson. Known for alt-folk/rock albums wilted (2020) and Happiest Day of My Life (2026), the Soundflowers duo, IMG modeling, and acting in Star, Gringo, and Scream.
Paris Koukoulopoulos
Paris Koukoulopoulos (Πάρις Κουκουλόπουλος), born 1956, is a Greek PASOK politician, MP for Kozani and Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament since 2026, after five terms as mayor of Kozani.
Paris La Défense Arena
Paris La Défense Arena, also known as Arena 92 or U Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Nanterre west of Paris, home of Racing 92 since 2017.
Paris Las Vegas
Paris Las Vegas is a French-themed Caesars Entertainment hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, opened September 1, 1999 with 2,914 rooms, a $760 million cost, and a half-scale Eiffel Tower replica.
Paris law (fatigue)
The Paris law, or Paris–Erdogan law, is an empirical relation stating that fatigue crack growth per load cycle is proportional to a power of the stress-intensity factor range.
Paris Lees
Paris Lees is a British journalist, presenter, author and trans campaigner, first trans presenter on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4, founder of META magazine, and author of the memoir What It Feels Like for a Girl.
Paris massacre of 1961
Paris massacre of 1961, also called the 17 October 1961 massacre: killing of Algerian FLN demonstrators by Paris police under Prefect Maurice Papon during the Algerian War; at least 120 dead, 12,000 arrested, decades of state denial before recognition.
Paris Masters
Paris Masters (Rolex Paris Masters), the ninth and final ATP Masters 1000 men's tennis event, indoor hard court, held since 1986 at Bercy and since 2025 at Paris La Défense Arena; Djokovic holds 7 titles.
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro, also known as the Métropolitain, is the rapid transit system serving Paris, with its first line opened in 1900 and 14 lines today.