The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that addresses mitigation, adaptation to greenhouse gas emissions and financing from 2020 onwards. The agreement aims to address the global threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature increase this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and making efforts to further limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. [1] A few days ago, India and the United States reaffirmed their commitment to swiftly implement the Paris Climate Agreement and promote solar energy and other low-carbon technologies. This happened during the second US-India Strategic and Trade Dialogue in New Delhi on September 31. In August, Union Secretary of State Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for Trade and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman held a dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and the United States. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. India has already begun its domestic policy process to ratify the Paris Agreement. Both the EU and its Member States are individually responsible for ratifying the Paris Agreement. It has been reported that the EU and its 28 Member States deposit their instruments of ratification at the same time to ensure that neither the EU nor its Member States commit to commitments that belong strictly to each other[21], and there have been fears that disagreement over each Member State`s share of the EU-wide reduction target, as well as the British vote to leave the EU may delay the Paris Pact. [22] However, the European Parliament approved the ratification of the Paris Agreement on 4 October 2016[23] and the EU deposited its instruments of ratification on 5 October 2016 with several EU Member States.

[22] China`s announcement comes just hours before sunday`s G20 summit in Hangzhou. After decades of unbridled industrial development that led to uncontrolled endemic pollution, China`s early ratification could be viewed positively like most other polluters, pointing to the country`s priorities for transitioning to cleaner energy sources. Under the Paris Agreement, China must reduce its carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 60 to 65 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels and increase primary energy consumption from non-fossil fuels to about 20 percent. China has also pledged to reach its emissions by 2030. With this development, it is expected that the United States will follow suit and that the two countries will make a joint statement on their ratification of the Paris Agreement. China`s ratification would also put pressure on other G-20 leaders to quickly begin and complete their national ratification process. Obama`s senior adviser, Brian Deese, said the joint statement was aimed at urging other countries to formally join the agreement. The Paris Agreement officially entered into force on 4 November 2016. Other countries continued to become parties to the Convention while completing their national approval procedures. To date, 195 Contracting Parties have signed the Convention and ratified 189. More information on the Paris Agreement and the status of ratification is available here. With ratification by the European Union, the agreement received enough contracting parties to vote on 4 September.

November 2016. International agreements are initially signed to signal the intention to comply, but only become binding through ratification. This may require an Act of Parliament or other formal adoption. Different countries have different processes. .