“This momentum is remarkable”, said outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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He noted that, considering the announced ratifications, they are already 60 states representing 47.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, adding that we are nearing the goal of 55%.
Hopes are now mounting that the agreement could come into force at the Marrakesh Summit, which starts on November 7th.
She added that the European Union could now help the agreement reach the 55 per cent threshold.
The progress towards the Paris Agreement coming into effect was broadly welcomed by green business leaders. The E.U.is now pursuing an ultrafast ratification of the agreement that could take place as early as next month.
The growing likelihood that the Paris agreement could enter into force less than a year after it was negotiated represents a truly striking development, observers said. The so-called Paris Climate Change Agreement involves action that would limit warming to well below two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.
As countries formally join the agreement they also officially convert their “intended” national climate action plans into formal emission reduction targets that they will achieve as a part of the Paris Agreement. If the deal comes into legal force before the presidential inauguration, it will take four years under the accord’s rules for America to legally withdraw.
Ban’s office said that 14 other countries accounting for 12.58 per cent of emissions had signalled they would ratify the accord this year, meaning the agreement is virtually certain to come into force, barring a widespread change of heart.
As the first African Head of State to address the UNGA, Idriss Déby Itno, President of Chad highlighted the importance of working with the worldwide community to fight global warming on the continent.
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“There was a sense that if China and the us weren’t going to accelerate entry into force, there was no chance other countries were going to put their shoulder behind this”, the official said.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday vowed to make “every possible effort” to secure parliamentary approval this year for a landmark agreement on climate change, calling the environmental challenge an urgent task for all of humanity.
“Members of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group call on the European Union to stay at the forefront of climate action and fully join the Paris Agreement in the next couple of weeks, triggering an entry into force at COP22 in Marrakesh”.
“In order to reclaim its role as a true climate leader it must take early action, before 2020, to ensure that keeping the world below 1.5 degree warming is not an elusive dream”, he said.
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UNGA President, Peter Thomson, the first from a Pacific Island nation (Fiji) underscored the need to act on climate change to avoid its negative impacts.
