While the Paris talks were ongoing, a group of fossil fuel-funded climate contrarians held their own sparsely-attended movie event and “counter-conference”.
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Modi hailed the agreement on climate change as the collective wisdom of world leaders to mitigate the danger, adding that there were no winners or losers in the outcome of the agreement.
Nations meeting at the United Nations COP21 climate change conference in Paris yesterday adopted a universal agreement on actions to combat climate change to keep the increase in global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
CSE analyses that India will be under constant pressure to take more burden for mitigating climate change by 2020 and beyond, especially when the next review of all the nationally determined contributions of countries take place.
The Paris Agreement will be deposited at the United Nations in NY and opened for one year for signature from 22 April 2016.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: “In striking this deal, the nations of the world have shown what unity, ambition and perseverance can do”.
The deal calls for developed countries to provide $100 billion a year to assist developing countries switch from fossil fuels to greener sources of energy and adapt to the effects of climate change. “It’s a moment to remember and a huge step forward in helping to secure the future of our planet”.
“This is vital for our long-term economic and global security”.
But the news of the deal prompted renewed calls for the UK Government, which has cut policies to support renewables, energy efficiency and clean technology in recent months, to ramp up its climate change efforts. Taylor said the proposed agreement requires the US and other nations “to enact ever-escalating carbon dioxide restrictions and wealth transfer obligations, even if real-world evidence continues to contradict the notion of a global warming crisis and exposes alarmist global warming speculation as unjustified”.
“Now, actions should begin from today”, Ban said after returning from Paris where the historic deal was reached Saturday, capping two weeks of tough negotiations.
“No agreement is ideal, including this one”.
Amid the euphoria that gripped the cavernous halls of Le Bourget conference centre in a northern suburb of Paris, there were warnings that the real work to tackle climate change is only just beginning. Critics on the left said that the treaty is not ambitious enough, while critics on the right, who have always been against a deal such as this, dispute the scientific evidence that links climate change to actions by humans.
U.S. secretary of state John Kerry described the agreement as a “tremendous victory” for all of the planet and for future generations.
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In order to achieve this goal, the almost 200 nations plan on reducing the amount of greenhouse gases they emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere.
