Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic minority leader, said climate change poses one of the greatest threats the world has ever known, and that no country acting alone can stem the tide.
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The deal also pledges that the developed world will mobilize at least $100 billion a year for developing countries to help them adapt to the effects of climate change.
MARKET & ECONOMICSGlobal climate change deal agreed in Paris
By some point after 2050, the agreement says, man-made emissions should be reduced to a level that forests and oceans can absorb. Atkins said the new agreement is not the end of actions that must be taken. “This is truly a historic moment”, the U.N.
A global deal on climate change was hailed by politicians yesterday as a “huge step forward” in securing the planet’s future.
India’s Modi says ‘climate justice’ won in Paris accord
The agreement instead calls for a nationally determined contribution, which they say is insufficient. It is expected that this year’s Climate Summit in Paris is to bring new and positive results.
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 deal was described by senior administration officials Saturday as a “hybrid agreement” where parts of the agreement, such as the transparency of countries sharing their carbon emissions, would be legally binding. “We also thank the United Nations for the opportunity provided to us to play this role”.
Narain added that the agreement did not operationalise equity and that the term carbon budget did not even find mention in the text, which would end up furthering “climate apartheid”.
Adding: “Above all, we have given future generations hope instead of doom and gloom”.
The agreement isn’t etched in stone yet; it will still have to be approved by 55 countries that plan to implement it, and those 55 countries must collectively be responsible for 55% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. “For the first time, we have a truly universal agreement on climate change, one of the most crucial problems on earth”.
Although almost 200 countries were involved, the long-term success or failure of the agreement also depends largely on a handful of countries that produce the most pollution, including the United States and China.
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said that the Paris Agreement showed that the world was “ready to move towards an innovative era of reductions in heat-trapping emissions that will put us on a path to avoid the worst impacts of climate change”.
Obama said, “This agreement represents the best chance we’ve had to save the one planet that we’ve got”.
He said he would brief Parliament about the developments in Paris and how they would benefit India. Collectively, the countries of the world agreed to strengthen the global response to limit global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, as well as pursue efforts to limit increase to 1.5 degrees. This increase – of 2 degrees Celsius – is the point at which there is no turning back, as the world will be set on course for devastating consequences in the form of rising sea levels, severe droughts and flooding, water shortages and massively destructive storms.
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On 12 December, the parties reached a new global agreement on climate change.
