US, China ratify Paris Climate Change Agreement
Mon Sep 05, 2016 07:10:am World
2.7K By Buchi Obichie
The Paris agreement to curb climate-warming discharges, has been officially ratified by the United States and China.
Confirming this on Saturday, the world's two biggest economies said the ratification could help put the pact into force before the end of the year.
UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, who witnessed the declaration in China, received the plan to join the agreement from US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping.
A senior adviser to President Obama, Brian Deese, observed that the joint announcement should push other countries to formally join the deal.
"The signal of the two large emitters taking this step together and taking it early, far earlier than people had anticipated a year ago, should give confidence to the global communities and to other countries that are working on their climate change plans, that they too can move quickly and will be part of a global effort," Reuters quoted Deese as saying.
Confirming this on Saturday, the world's two biggest economies said the ratification could help put the pact into force before the end of the year.
UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, who witnessed the declaration in China, received the plan to join the agreement from US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping.
A senior adviser to President Obama, Brian Deese, observed that the joint announcement should push other countries to formally join the deal.
"The signal of the two large emitters taking this step together and taking it early, far earlier than people had anticipated a year ago, should give confidence to the global communities and to other countries that are working on their climate change plans, that they too can move quickly and will be part of a global effort," Reuters quoted Deese as saying.
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