India to ratify Paris Agreement on Climate Change on Gandhi Jayanti

a. October 2

b. October 3

c. October 4

d. None of the above

 

India will ratify the Paris agreement on climate change on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Country’s move will bring in a global deal to fight the menace of global warming

• The announcement to this effect was made by PM Narendra Modi during his speech at the BJP party council meet
• India had announced its climate action plan to fight challenges of climate change on October 2 in the past year.
• It has submitted its INDC or Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to the UN Body on October 1, 2015 and made it public the next day coinciding with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
• Around 60 countries including the two top polluters of the world- the US and China- have ratified the agreement adopted by 195 nations in Paris in December 2015
• While China and US have ratified it on September 3, as many as 31 countries have formally joined the agreement through formal ratification or acceptance at a special event hosted by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in New York on September 21
• Agreement will come into force 30 days after 55 countries, representing 55 percent of global emissions will deposit their instruments of ratification, accession or acceptance with the UN Secretary General
• So fa national ratification has crossed 55 nations but only accounted for 47.62 percent of the global emission
• Decision of India, which accounts for 4.1 percent of the global emission, will bring it within reach of the emission threshold of 55 percent
• The magic figure of 55 percent will be reached in 2016 as 14 more countries, with 12.58 percent of the global emission on September 21, committed to join the agreement this year before the start of the next UN conference on climate change COP22 in Morocco in November 2016
• Paris Agreement calls on nations to combat climate change and accelerate and intensify actions and investments needed for sustainable low carbon future and adapting the increasing impact of climate change
• Regular meetings are mandated every 5 years, starting in 2018 to review progress and consider how to strengthen the level of ambition as countries recognise present steps to counter climate change are not enough to save planet earth
• Apart from India, other countries joining the Paris Agreement through formal ratification include:
  i. Austria,
  ii. Australia,
  iii. Bulgaria,
  iv. Cambodia,
  v. Canada,
  vi. Costa Rica,
  vii. France,
  viii. Germany,
  ix. Hungary,
  x. Kazakhstan,
  xi. New Zealand,
  xii. Poland and
  xiii. the Republic of Korea.

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