{"id":35043,"date":"2018-10-31T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35043"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:24:46","slug":"bound-by-paris-deal-says-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bound-by-paris-deal-says-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound by Paris deal, says India:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/bound-by-paris-deal-says-india\/article19724114.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bound by Paris deal, says India<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Donald Trump in June announced that America was withdrawing from the Paris deal, arguing that it gave undue advantage to countries like India and China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid this uncertainty, India reaffirmed its commitment to the Paris climate change agreement.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended UN\u2019s Leadership Summit on Environment Pact.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was reiterated by the Indian side that India had been at the forefront of the debate on environment and development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was willing to \u201cwork above and beyond\u201d the pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also mentioned that India and France are working together on the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Solar Alliance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Paris Climate Change Agreement<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, which is the world\u2019s third largest carbon polluter, reached a pact, along with more than 190 nations, in December 2015 with an aim to prevent an increase in the global average temperature and keep it well below 2 degrees Celsius.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deal, which replaced the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, was ratified last October.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of September 2017, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, 164 of which have ratified it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>International Solar Alliance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 121 countries, most of them being sunshine countries, which come either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The alliance&#8217;s primary objective is work for efficient exploitation of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This initiative was first proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The alliance is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Countries that do not fall within the Tropics can join the ISA and enjoy all benefits as other members, except for voting rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launching of such an alliance in Paris also sends a strong signal to the global communities about the sincerity of the developing nations towards their concern about climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bound by Paris deal, says India: Background President Donald Trump in June announced that America was withdrawing from the Paris deal, arguing that it gave undue advantage to countries like India and China. Amid this uncertainty, India reaffirmed its commitment to the Paris climate change agreement. What happened? 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