He released a statement on the importance of the Paris agreement and said that “this universal and ambitious agreement sends a clear signal to governments, businesses, and investors everywhere: the transformation of our global economy from one fueled by dirty energy to one fueled by sustainable economic growth is now firmly and inevitably under way”.
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“Today, we celebrate”, said Miguel Arias Canete, the European Union’s energy commissioner and top climate negotiator.
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The years-long, delicate dance of negotiations leading up to 188 countries pledging to gradually reduce carbon emissions to help stop the unsafe warming of the planet shows that diplomacy is not dead, and that the community of nations working together can still reach a common ground about a better way forward for humanity and our Earth.
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The Paris agreement on climate change was adopted with no objection by the 196 Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) hosted by France.
The deal aims to limit global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), while calling on nations to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees”.
Obama, for whom the subject of climate change is close to heart, met key world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Fabius said the world would not find a better moment to reach a global climate deal.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended almost a fortnight of gruelling United Nations negotiations with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief.
Not since pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget in May 1927, after making the first non-stop transatlantic solo flight from New York’s Long Island, has the airfield – once the main airport for Paris – witnessed such a momentous landing as the 31-page Paris Agreement.
Once at least 55 nations – representing, between them, at least 55 percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions – have signed on, the pact can go into effect.
“It gets harder and harder to say this is some cabal on the part of a few liberal environmentalists or scientists when you have so much agreement to address the issue”.
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“Whereas we left Copenhagen scared of what comes next, we’ll leave Paris inspired to keep fighting”, said David Turnbull of Oil Change International, a research and advocacy organisation opposed to fossil fuel production.
There should already be a transparent inventory of our greenhouse gas which the environmental agency should initiate and coordinate with the local government units.
“The citizens of the world – our own citizens – and our children would not understand it. Nor, I believe, would they forgive us”, Fabius said. It says temperature increases must stay well below 2C, and ideally be kept to 1.5C, and the agreement opens the door to five-yearly reviews, with the first global stock-take to take place in 2018. But following U.S. objections, it was not included in the legally binding section of the deal.
“Climate finance needs to include agriculture as a key sector, and support countries to implement the plans they have laid out”, said CCAFS director Bruce Campbell.
Naidoo said the promises in the deal for developed countries to help poorer nations pay for cleaner power systems are too weak and lack muscle.
“The time to act is now”, Nevada’s Reid said.
The biggest challenge is to define the responsibilities of wealthy nations, which have polluted the most historically, and developing economies including China and India where emissions are growing the fastest.
More than 180 countries have ready presented plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions – a breakthrough in itself after years of stalemate.
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China and the United States, respectively, account for about 24% and 14% of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Resources Institute.
