Around 200 Nations agree on Rule Book of 2015 Paris Climate Treaty

The Measures that will make the Paris climate pact operational in 2020
COP-24 KATOWICE – POLAND

•  Nearly 200 Nations across the globe struck to deal of implementing the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world’s most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming.
• Representative from nearly 200 states finalized a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
• Before the talks started, many expected that the deal would not be as robust as is needed. The unity which underpinned the Paris talks has fragmented and US President Donald Trump intends to pull his country – one of the world’s biggest emitters – out of the pact.
•  Anyhow, exhausted ministers managed to bridge a series of divides to produce a 156-page rulebook, which is broken down into themes such as how countries will report and monitor their national pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions and update their emissions plans.

What is Paris Treaty – 2015 on Climate Change

•  The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020.
•  The agreement’s language was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015.
• As of November 2018, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, and 184 have become party to it. The Paris Agreement’s long-term goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels; and to limit the increase to 1.5°C, since this would substantially reduce the risks and effects of climate change.

India’s stand in the Rule book of COP-24 KATOWICE

•  India has expressed its reservation over the lack of equity in the rules relating to global stock-taking in implementing the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.
• “India wishes to express its strong reservation regarding the treatment of equity in the global stock-take decision,” India’s lead negotiator Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
•  Equity demands that the vulnerabilities, problems and challenges of the poor and marginalized be prioritized to ensure climate justice,” Mr Prasad said.