Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, said, “This is an extraordinary momentum by nations and a clear signal of their determination to implement Paris now and raise ambition over the decades to come”.
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In May, Trump said he’d “cancel” the Paris Agreement if it has a negative impact on the USA economy. The E.U.is now pursuing an ultrafast ratification of the agreement that could take place as early as next month.
Another 14 countries promised to ratify the agreement by the end of 2016.
The minister said that Morocco, along with France, committed itself throughout this year to a campaign of awareness-raising and mobilization of states ahead of the COP22 slated on November 7-18 in Marrakech.
The milestone is within reach in large part because Mr Ban, who sees the climate deal as a centrepiece of his legacy, began a sustained push to win the formal approval of 55 countries representing 55 per cent of global emissions – the threshold needed to put the accord into force.
The command paper leading to the ratification will be laid in Parliament after it returns from the conference recess next month.
NEW YORK As United Nations diplomats gather in New York this week, climate wonks may be feeling like anxious children on a long drive to a beach.
The accord requires all countries to devise plans to achieve the goal of keeping the rise of temperatures within two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
The climate deal was struck past year in the French capital, Paris, agreed to by 195 countries. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also said he was confident that more countries would follow suit. “The global community is rallying behind swift and ambitious action to combat climate change”, said Paula Caballero, global director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute, a nonprofit environmental think tank in Washington.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Thirty-one countries formally joined the Paris climate change pact Wednesday, bringing the total number of countries ratifying the treaty to 60 and raising hopes that it will enter into effect by the end of the year. “It was important that we went first and were public so the conversation with the other countries could become more real and more concrete”. The problem is that recent analyses suggest the carbon-cutting pledges submitted by individual nations to the Paris Agreement are still not enough to get us there.
“During the Presidential primary campaign, claims were made that the Earth is not warming, or that warming is due to purely natural causes outside of human control”, the scientists wrote.
Donald Trump’s run for the USA presidency gained an unwanted kind of endorsement, as several of the world’s top scientists congregated to pen an open letter warning Americans against voting for the Republican presidential candidate. They give the retreat of Arctic sea ice and an ever-changing rainfall pattern as compelling evidence for the existence of climate change.
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“And as we do so, we must recognise that for too many of those men and women the increasing pace of globalisation has left them feeling left behind”.
