Negotiators from 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) spent two weeks working on the the agreement.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that China’s push for a successful conclusion to the Paris negotiations “fully shows that China is dealing with climate change issues as a responsible big country”.
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“By including this important goal in the agreement, world leaders have recognised that our climate is changing more rapidly and with larger and more damaging impacts than first thought, and underscored how quickly we must act to safeguard our climate”.
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“Senate leadership has already been outspoken in its positions that the United States is not legally bound to any agreement setting emissions targets or any financial commitment to it without approval by Congress”, Inhofe said in a press release. 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”.
The Paris agreement runs to 31 pages with 29 articles, including objective, mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology development and transfer, capacity building, and transparency of action and support.
“As a result of the climate agreement we can be more confident the Earth will be in better shape”, he said.
And Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma said that Americans can expect the administration to cite the agreement as an excuse for establishing emission targets for every sector of the US economy. The deal itself required that all countries that take part in the agreement reduce their greenhouse gas emissions “as soon as possible”, continuing those reductions as the century continues to progress.
“The Paris Agreement is a monumental triumph for people and our planet”, Ban said in a tweet, immediately following the adoption of the new Paris Agreement.
“They seek protection from the perils of a warming planet, and the opportunity to live in a safer, more bountiful world”, he said.
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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. The outcome has a real bearing on human beings’ undertakings in climate change and our future of sustainable development”. The agreement also requires a flow of $US100 billion a year from developed countries to developing countries by 2020. While the deal was widely hailed by environmental campaigners and diplomats alike today, critics such as former NASA scientist James Hansen have called the agreement “a fraud”.
