Edna Moleta Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/edna-moleta/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 02 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 Edna Moleta Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/edna-moleta/ 32 32 China ratifies Paris climate change agreement https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/china-ratifies-paris-climate-change-agreement/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/09/china-ratifies-paris-climate-change-agreement/ Ahead of hosting the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China’s  has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, boost ing efforts to bring the accord into effect by the end of this year. The United States is expected to announce it’s formally joining the process that started in South Africa five years ago and concluded in Paris […]

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]]> Ahead of hosting the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China’s  has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, boost ing efforts to bring the accord into effect by the end of this year.

The United States is expected to announce it’s formally joining the process that started in South Africa five years ago and concluded in Paris last year.

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China and the US are the biggest emitters of global carbon into the atmosphere.

Joining the Paris process has become a domestic political issue in China, chocking on its own pollution.

President Jacob Zuma, who’s at the G20 summit is not expected to make any environmental announcement.

Environment Minister Edna Molewa told the United Nations General Assembly in April  that ratification procedures are underway in South Africa , in the hope that implementation of the Paris Agreement will be initiated in 2020.

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