55 countries Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/55-countries/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 55 countries Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/55-countries/ 32 32 Activist want to have Paris Climate Change Agreement enacted before US election https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/activist-want-paris-climate-change-agreement-enacted-us-election/ Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/activist-want-paris-climate-change-agreement-enacted-us-election/ At least 20 countries are expected to announce ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement in the next few weeks. It will put the world on the brink of enforcing the deal struck in the French capital to keep the global average rise in temperatures below 2 degrees Centigrade. ends China, Brazil and the United […]

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]]> At least 20 countries are expected to announce ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement in the next few weeks.

It will put the world on the brink of enforcing the deal struck in the French capital to keep the global average rise in temperatures below 2 degrees Centigrade.

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China, Brazil and the United States ratified the Paris Climate Change agreement earlier this month.

It brought to 27 the number of countries who’ve taken this legal step.

To come into force internationally the agreement has to be ratified by 55 countries.

While there are sound practical reasons to have this measure in place to curb global warming, there are also pressing political pressures.

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has called global warming a Chinese hoax and warned he’ll scrap the Paris accord.

The goal is to have the issue done and dusted and on the international statute books, presenting  a fait accompli to whoever makes it to White House

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