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Paris climate deal paves way for further science

As well as covering mitigation – efforts to reduce carbon emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal – the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with climate change impacts.

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Ban told reporters he wants leaders of the almost 200 countries that approved the deal on Saturday to come to United Nations headquarters on the day it opens for signature “because this will be the first-ever universal climate change agreement”.


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China is willing to work with relevant parties, including the U.S., to maintain coordination and cooperation to ensure the effective implementation of the Paris agreement, Xi was paraphrased as telling Obama by the ministry.


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“During the Obama administration, we have seen huge strides in the deployment of clean energy and the reduction of their costs”, states Ernest Moniz, U.S. secretary of energy.

Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar said that he would make a statement on India’s role in Paris Agreement in the parliament on Wednesday. That’s because plans submitted so far by 186 nations would guarantee a temperature cap of 2.7 degrees at best.

However, there is still a “gap between the science and the politics”, says Tim Gore, climate change policy lead at Oxfam International.

The deal itself isn’t as aggressive as the most ardent activists were hoping for, The New York Times points out: the Paris conference only settled on cutting emissions by half of what experts say is needed to keep the planet from warming by 2 degrees Celsius.

While the Paris Agreement has won praise, some countries have noted that the deal is not ideal.

The deal calls for nations to work toward capping global temperature increases since pre-industrial times to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

“A very good agreement took place in Paris, which was welcomed globally”.

The accord sends a clear signal that the global economy is shifting to low-emission growth and contains strong accountability and transparency measures, he said.

The deal now needs to be ratified by individual governments – at least 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions – before taking effect.

Still, overall, the vast majority of countries walked away from the Paris climate conference satisfied that the text was “a generally fair and balanced representation” of what most nations wanted despite significant compromises on the thornier issues.

Other critical parts of the agreement, like emissions benchmarks and billions of dollars in climate aid from developed countries, were left out of the legally-binding section of the agreement.

Catastrophic typhoons and floods have meanwhile become the new norm, with the Philippines among the hardest hit by erratic climate changes that come as a result of global warming, the lethal heating up of the earth’s atmosphere because of the unremitting use of fossil fuels. The agreement struck a middle ground, removing a strict firewall between rich and poor nations and saying that expectations on countries to take climate action should grow as their capabilities evolve. Here’s a look at what was actually agreed to in Paris, and how much of an impact it will have on our collective future.

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Thanks to the Paris accord, that moment is likely to extend into the future. With such an aggressive goal for global temperatures, world leaders agree that clean energy infrastructure is key to edging out unsafe GHG emissions and smog-inducing pollution.

Historic deal may signal end of fossil fuel era