Union Cabinet approves ratification of Paris Agreement

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi-Union Cabinet approves ratification of Paris Agreement, says Union minister Prakash Javadekar. This follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Sunday that India would ratify the Paris climate deal on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Addressing delegates at the BJPs national council meeting in Kozhikode, Modi said that, on Mahatma Gandhis birth anniversary, India will ratify the decisions reached at the Conference of Parties (CoP) in Paris.

He explained that it was appropriate to make the announcement at a party forum because it was of a similar line of preservation of natural resources that had been articulated by Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) president Deen Dayal Upadhyay during the inception of the party.

The Paris Agreement asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns. It requires governments to present national plans to reduce emissions to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.