Developed countries must implement financial and technological commitments under UNFCCC and Paris agreement: Prakash Javadekar
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- Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, developed countries must implement the financial and technological commitments under UNFCCC and Paris agreement.
- Representing India at the fourth edition of the virtual Ministerial on Climate Action, Mr Javadekar said, India has taken very significant steps for combating climate change and will continue its efforts in the future also.
- He called upon developed country parties, once again, to do their part as envisaged under UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, for extending financial and technological support to developing countries.
Source: AIR
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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is an Indian government ministry.
- Founded: 1985
- Headquarters: New Delhi
- Jurisdiction: India
- Officeholders: Prakash Javadekar (Minister)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty adopted on 9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
- It then entered into force on 21 March 1994, after a sufficient number of countries had ratified it.
- Start date: 4 June 1992
- Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Signatories: 165
- Effective: 21 March 1994
Paris Agreement
- The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016.
- The Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels; and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing that this would substantially reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
- Signatories: 195
- Effective: 4 November 2016