Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The Paris climate change agreement is historic in its ambition to take action against the worldwide threat of global warming”.
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-MONEY: The agreement says wealthy countries should continue to offer financial support to help poor countries reduce their emissions and adapt to climate change.
World comes together to act on climate change for the first time
Senate for ratification, which led the U.S.to push for those provisions to be made voluntary in the final agreement. Any deal that required legally-binding emissions cuts or monetary commitments would need to go to the U.S.
However, There was a contrary view too to the deal with the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said the climate change agreement is “weak and unambitious” as it does not include any “meaningful” targets and has discharged developed nations from their historical responsibility.
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Among the many goals is that of limiting the world’s rise in average temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius”. Taking into account of the needs and priorities of developing countries, the agreement also eyes 100 billion US dollars a year in climate aid by developed countries for developing countries from 2020 to 2025.
Some Republicans in Congress have criticized the deal, though, saying aspects of the agreement are vague and that reducing emissions from power plants could cost jobs.
Zimbabwe is hailing the climate change agreement reached in Paris at the weekend as a potential turning point for the world, especially struggling developing countries that have been feeling the pain caused by changing weather patterns.
“The governments did not create a climate change police force”, he said.
The agreement is the first to ask all countries to join the fight against global warming and represents a major change in U.N. action that previously required only wealthy nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. “All of us had to solve it together”, he said during nationally televised remarks.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said the agreement demonstrated solidarity, was ambitious, flexible, credible, and durable.
More than seven years ago, Barack Obama told campaign supporters that one day, Americans would be able to tell their children that “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”.
The world’s richest states are offering just $100bn (£66bn) a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a vague commitment to further finance in the future.
Irish environment minister Alan Kelly and his Stormont counterpart Mark H Durkan both welcomed the weekend accord struck between 195 countries.
“The world finally has a framework for cooperating on climate change that’s suited to the task”, said Michael Levi, an expert on energy and climate change policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. It is also expected to give a boost to the clean energy business without comprising on developmental goals.
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“This global agreement is a result for everyone – our planet and our future generations”, he said.
