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UN, US Say Climate Treaty Will Bind Nations By Nov/Dec

Clean Technica: Both United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry (quoting President Obama), affirmed the viability of the Paris Agreement on climate change this morning. Sensing the urgency of acting on upcoming world disaster, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had convened a special “High-Level Event” today at the UN Headquarters in New York. The date coincided with the regularly scheduled United Nations General Assembly gathering.

The high-level event provided a chance for other countries to publicly commit to joining the Paris Agreement before the end of this year. The treaty, overwhelmingly approved by the Paris gathering of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention last December and signed by 178 members as of June 2016, is a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to 2°C or well below (1.5°C) by cutting back greenhouse gas emissions. It involves mitigation, adaptation, and finance, and would start in 2020.

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