Landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change Now International Law (Sans Shipping) – gCaptain
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The landmark Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday with its entry into force less than a year after it was unanimously adopted by 196 nations last December in Paris.
The Paris Agreement aims is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. International shipping sector, as one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is noticeably absent from the accord.
“We remain in a race against time. But with the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world has the plans we need to make the shift to a low-emission, climate-resilient path,” UN Chief Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters Friday at the UN Headquarters in New York.
“Now is the time to strengthen global resolve, do what science demands and seize the opportunity to build a safer, more sustainable world for all,” Ban added.
In early October, the Paris Agreement cleared the final threshold of 55 countries representing 55 percent of global emissions required for the accord to enter into effect.