The White House issued a statement on Saturday morning announcing the USA ratification.In a speech in Hangzhou, Mr Obama said the Paris deal was the “single best chance that have to deal with a problem that could end up transforming this planet”.
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Ban congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama as he received the legal instruments for joining the Paris Agreement from the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters.
China announced on Saturday that it has ratified the emissions-cutting agreement reached last year in Paris, giving a big boost to efforts to bring the accord into effect by the end of this year.
“This is not a fight that any one country no matter how powerful can take alone”, Obama said.
In a speech in Hangzhou, Mr Obama said the Paris deal was the “single best chance that have to deal with a problem that could end up transforming this planet”.
“Ratifying the agreement accords with China’s policy of actively dealing with climate change”, said the proposal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou to attend the 11th Group of 20 (G20) summit, September 3, 2016.
In recent years, the United States and China have made climate change cooperation a pillar of our bilateral relationship.
It will come into effect 30 days after at least 55 countries, accounting for 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have ratified it.
President Barack Obama is expected to meet with India’s prime minister during the G20 summit.
As Obama crossed the Pacific, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported China’s legislature had voted to formally enter the agreement.
The joint pact is considered a big victory for President Obama who hopes to see the pact put into place before the United States election in November.
And it would send a clear signal to all sectors that the global momentum to tackle climate change is only building.
When a White House official told the man the press were allowed to record Obama’s arrival, the Chinese official yelled: “This is our country!”
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“This global climate agreement will accelerate the growth of clean energy and help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and will strengthen worldwide stability and security, save lives and improve human well-being”, he said. “Now other countries must act swiftly to ratify the deal, and to reduce their emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals, according to science and equity, and therefore increasing their current pledges”. China vowed that its growing emissions will top out by 2030. The two countries account for about 20 percent and 18 percent, respectively, of global warming emissions.
