Noting that the agreement acknowledges and recognises the development imperatives of India and other developing countries, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the accord also supported their right to development and their efforts to harmonise development with environment, while protecting the interests of the most vulnerable.
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“This agreement represents the best chance we’ve had to save the one planet that we’ve got”.
India’s demands for a clear differentiation between developed and developing countries, and a clause on sustainable lifestyles was included in the 31-page agreement.
US President Barack Obama says the historic climate agreement reached in Paris shows that the world can stand as one when needed.
“It is India’s hope that the Paris Agreement will fulfil the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi who said “We should care for a world we will not see”, he said while thanking as well as congratulating French Presidency for vision and patience.
“Politically as well as technologically, this is no walk in the park”, said Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Institute near Berlin, and a lead author of the UN’s most rigorous assessment of climate economics. Paris has succeeded. It was under terror attack last month.
Kerry said from Paris: “I have news for Senator Inhofe”.
“In the face of an unprecedented challenge, you have demonstrated unprecedented leadership”, the UN Secretary General said taking the COP21 stage just minutes after the adoption of the agreement.
“Today we celebrate”, said European Energy and Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete. At the same time, all nations are bound by indc and they will be reporting.
“Paris is an absolute success”.
The deal aims to limit the global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), while calling on nations to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees”.
According to CNN, Obama said, speaking at the White House that they had come together around a strong agreement that the world needs.
The Maldives described the climate accord as an “historic agreement”.
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The document does talk about developed nations providing Dollars 100 billion per year from 2020 to developing nations but that is not binding and there is no clarity on how much finance will be delivered, when it will be delivered by, or how much of it will be available for adaptation. But the agreement’s defenders say it puts in place a long-term framework to ratchet up ambition over time.
