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India Ratifies Paris Climate Change Agreement

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:27AM   
from the a-breath-of-fresh-air dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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• It's not that close It's not that close (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 04 2016, @11:35AM

  by khallow (3766) on Tuesday October 04 2016, @11:35AM (#409936) Journal

  I see the story claims that the US has ratified the treaty, but those would be incorrect. President Obama has considerable latitude in negotiating treaties, but he can't ratify treaties. That is the role of the US Senate. So the treaty is significantly further away from 55% of global carbon emissions than claimed.

• Re:It's not that close Re:It's not that close (Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:28PM

  by Kilo110 (2853) on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:28PM (#410003)

  OK anonymous Internet poster. Your compelling case devoid of any citations or hard data convinced me that all the countless scientists are not only wrong, but also manipulated by some grand puppeteer.

  Glad we had this talk

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  • Re:It's not that close (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:07PM

    by khallow (3766) on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:07PM (#410153) Journal

    It's not worth replying, particularly to an AC making this argument.

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• Re:It's not that close (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @07:52PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @07:52PM (#410258)

  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.

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