Paris Climate Deal Enters Force as Focus Shifts to Action

A solar power station in Israel as one real action of the Paris Agreement. .Source: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/17F61/production/_92254189_036203671.jpg

Based on an article with the same title posted by BBC on November 04, 2016

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37872111

 

After being ratified a year ago, the Paris Agreement has been finally applied. To celebrate the entry into force of this agreement, the Eiffel Tower in Paris will be lit up in green light on Friday. There is going to be a meeting held in Marrakech next week which is attended by representatives from 200 countries to discuss further actions based on the Paris Agreement. In comparison with the Kyoto Protocol, another major pact on climate change issue, the Paris Agreement took shorter time to come into force. However, the environmentalists still ask for nations’ more actions.

The Paris Agreement is the first treaty which unites all nations regardless their conditions to overcome climate change issue, albeit only few countries that really have commitment to conduct this agreement. The rest simply desert the deal when it does not fulfill their interest. Nevertheless, those countries are keeping an eye on the US elections since it will influence the sustainability of the agreement. Hillary Clinton has planned to support this agreement, and Donald Trump is going to do the contrary by casting the Paris Agreement aside. 

I am quite glad to know that the Paris Agreement has come into force. I hope that it will continue to bring good progress to resolve the climate issue. I also expect that despite the result of the US polls, other countries having approved the agreement do not need to get affected. Instead, they have to create the sustainable actions according to the Paris Agreement in tackling the global issue of climate change.