Nitrous oxide (di-nitrogen oxide), listed as one of six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Paris Agreement: A global climate agreement that was reached under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the November to 12 December 2015) to limit average global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.