Although the agreement was welcomed by many people, including French President François Hollande and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,[67] criticism also emerged. The United States formally withdrew from the deal the day after the 2020 presidential election,[9] although President-elect Joe Biden said America would join the deal after his inauguration. [10] The Paris Agreement also states, for the first time in an international climate agreement, that we should “make efforts” to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C (Article 2). In Paris, the IPCC was invited to draft in 2018 a new special report (see point 1.5) on the effects of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. . . .