The United States has submitted its new climate action
plan to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) comes well in advance of a new universal climate change agreement which will be reached at the UN climate conference in Paris, in December this year.
The US INDC also includes a cover note and additional information.
This Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) comes well in advance of a new universal climate change agreement which will be reached at the UN climate conference in Paris, in December this year.
The US INDC also includes a cover note and additional information.
Including the United States submission, 33 Parties to the
UNFCCC have formally submitted their INDCs, covering all the countries
under the European Union plus the European Commission, Mexico, Norway and
Switzerland.
The Paris agreement will come into effect in 2020, empowering all countries to act to prevent average global temperatures rising above 2 degrees Celsius and to reap the many opportunities that arise from a necessary global transformation to clean and sustainable development.
Countries have agreed that there will be no back-tracking in these national climate plans, meaning that the level of ambition to reduce emissions will increase over time.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said: "According to UNFCCC data, two thirds of industrialized countries covering 65 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrialized part of the world have now set out their ambition
for the new agreement which comes into effect in 2020—importantly many of these contributions also speak to longer term aims representative of progressively increasing ambition over time.”
“Over the coming months, we expect many more nations to come forward to make their submissions public. The pace at which these contributions are coming forward bodes well for Paris and beyond,” she added.
The Paris agreement will come into effect in 2020, empowering all countries to act to prevent average global temperatures rising above 2 degrees Celsius and to reap the many opportunities that arise from a necessary global transformation to clean and sustainable development.
Countries have agreed that there will be no back-tracking in these national climate plans, meaning that the level of ambition to reduce emissions will increase over time.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said: "According to UNFCCC data, two thirds of industrialized countries covering 65 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrialized part of the world have now set out their ambition
for the new agreement which comes into effect in 2020—importantly many of these contributions also speak to longer term aims representative of progressively increasing ambition over time.”
“Over the coming months, we expect many more nations to come forward to make their submissions public. The pace at which these contributions are coming forward bodes well for Paris and beyond,” she added.
Countries under the UNFCCC have already finalized their
negotiating text for the Paris agreement and formal negotiations will
continue on the basis of this text at the next UN climate change meeting
in Bonn from 1 to 11 June.
The text covers the options on the substantive content of the
new agreement including mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology,
capacity building, and transparency of action and support.
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