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One of the world's largest polluters has signed onto the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Under the deal, India has committed to ensuring that at least 40% of its electricity will be generated from non-fossil sources by 2030.
[...] The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement. It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries which between them produce at least 55% of global carbon emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that India would ratify the agreement on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the struggle for independence from Britain.
Also at the UN News Centre, NPR, and DW.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @07:52PM
WHO THE FUCK CARES?!
This a bullshit non-binding treaty being used for propaganda.
It will make no difference to what countries do. NONE.
Either they have an existing program, or not.
My country NZ (along with every other country) got a "100% pass" on the last kyoto and we voted in a Tory government which completely gutted our emissions scheme; made the taxpayer pay for polluters and bought fraudulent carbon credits with the money;Exempted our famers totally which are 50% of our emissions; fast tracked deep sea oil exploration; Reversed a decision to prevent any new non-renewable power plants;etc etc
And this will be no different. Its bullshit.
Let's all just accept the fact that our earth "society" is too apathetic, too corrupt and too lazy to fix this and just begin bracing ourselves for the consequences.
Anything else is a sick parody of rational behaviour.