India is not only on track to achieve its Paris Agreement targets, but to exceed them beyond expectations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday, highlighting that the country has reduced its emission intensity by 21 per cent over 2005 levels.
Joe Biden has vowed that the US would rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.
The United States has formally made an exit from the Paris Climate Agreement amid election uncertainty. This comes three years after Trump had announced his intent to remove the country from participating in the landmark global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As the United States has officially begun the process of withdrawing from the Paris climate deal, President Donald Trump has been hugely criticised by environmental experts and critics, who termed it as a reckless failure of leadership. Meanwhile, Mike Pompeo has submitted a formal notice to the United Nations in this regard.
It said the outcome at Katowice should be inclusive, consensus based and an integrated package, including all the components of the Paris Agreement Work Programme, to reflect the global consensus reached three years ago on this very day while adopting the Paris Agreement.
"In all our negotiations that we are having today and tomorrow, the US is a part of the negotiation work. They are still with us on the negotiations," he said.
"The world needs a roadmap for finance and technology to achieve the goals set out in the Convention and its Paris Agreement in everyone's collective interest," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at a high-level meeting on climate change here on Wednesday.
Trump in June last year announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal, saying the accord would have cost America trillions of dollars, killed jobs, and hindered the oil, gas, coal and manufacturing industries.
John Kerry noted that many Americans remain "absolutely committed” to the 2015 Paris climate accord despite President Donald Trump’s threat to abandon it.
“We are seeing more and more troubles and conflicts still continuing, because of the lack of global commitment and global vision”
The French President, on the eve of a climate summit he arranged in Paris, condemned the manner in which the US had signed an international deal, then withdrawn from it.
A climate expert said that this a first-of-its-kind attempt to phase out the traditional coal power on such a massive scale after the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Even Germany and Poland, hosts of climate talks this year and next, are holding onto coal for the foreseeable future.
Businesses and universities said they are still committed to curbing global warming even as US President Donald Trump’s administration is walking away from the Paris climate accord.
Syrian officials announced their intention to ratify the accord at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday, CNN reported.
Addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Swaraj said that it was not just mere coincidence that the world has witnessed hurricanes, earthquakes, rains that inundate storms which terrify.
India today reaffirmed its commitment to the landmark Paris climate change agreement, saying it is willing to "work above and beyond" the pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The Paris climate deal aims to prevent the Earth from heating up by 2 degrees Celsius since the start of the industrial age. The US is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China.
The notification comes two months after President Donald Trump announced his intention to leave the Paris climate accord.
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