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The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday November 4, 2016 — a landmark deal about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter even faster than scientists expected…
Read Full Article, AP / ABC News (11-04-2016)
Paris climate change agreement enters into force, Guardian UK (11-04-2016)
The Paris agreement on climate change enters into force on Friday, marking the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises. The passage of the accord – the fruit of more than two decades of often tortuous international negotiations on combating climate change – was hailed by nations and observers around the world…
Pacific islands kick off global climate deal, Reuters (11-03-2016)
The 2015 Paris Agreement formally started on Nov. 4 after winning support from major greenhouse gas emitters led by China and the United States, but legal texts do not specify a time zone where it begins. As a result, it came into effect first in the Pacific region, home to low-lying island states on the front lines of storm surges, disruptions to rainfall and a creeping rise in sea levels…
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change Is Official. Now What? The New York Times (11-03-2016)
‘Dramatic’ action needed to cut emissions, slow rise in global temperature; United Nations (11-03-2016)
A day before the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change comes into force, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is urging the world to ‘dramatically’ step up its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions – by some 25 per cent more than those pledged in Paris last year – “to meet the stronger, and safer, target of 1.5 degrees Celsius” global temperature rise…
