President John Mahama is in Paris, France, for a meeting with French President, Francois Hollande on Climate Change and an Electrification for Africa Project.
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In line with India’s stress on mitigation aspect of climate change response, he said “Paris decision on the pre-2020 actions should incorporate elements of ambitious mitigation actions by developed countries and enhanced support to developing countries to enable them to take affirmative climate action”. Washington refused to sign the treaty.
“I hope that binding measures emerge from the agreement in Paris”, meant to curb unsafe levels of global warming, he told a scientific gathering in the French capital.
The “review clause”, the terms of which are under negotiation, will allow the contributions submitted by each country to be “regularly reviewed to arrive at this path: no more than 2C of global warming”, insisted Hollande.
But a global poll last week found that residents of China and the United States were among the least concerned about climate change, in contrast to a global consensus that it is a pressing problem, and US President Barack Obama faces opposition from a hostile Senate in pushing through efforts to combat it.
The world is aware of the “enormity” of the task and time is clearly not on its side, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said adding one can not afford to “complicate” the Paris summit and “we should keep Paris simple”.
“But the fact that a certain number of dispositions should have a practical effect and be legally binding is obvious so let’s not confuse things, which is perhaps what Mr Kerry has done”, said Fabius, who spoke to Kerry on Wednesday.
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“This is not a political discussion”.
