The government has approved the Paris Agreement on Climate Change – Rosbalt.RU

April 20, 2016, 08:08 | government | Paris Agreement | Climate

 Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on approval of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It is reported by the press service of the government.

 “Approved by the Paris Agreement, adopted December 12, 2015 21 th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change,” – noted in the Cabinet website

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 The strategic goal of the Paris agreement – hold the increase in global average temperatures by the end of the XXI century within the “far below” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial indicators and “the application of efforts” in order to limit the temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius

 The Paris Agreement, including at the insistence of Russia, includes articles that secure adequate consideration of forest factor and the value of the global adaptation of all countries to climate change.

 Paris Agreement opened for signature at UN Headquarters in New York from 22 April 2016. From the Russian Federation signing of the Paris Agreement of the UN charged with the deputy chairman of the Government of Alexander Khloponin.

 The document was reviewed and approved at a meeting of the government’s April 14, 2016.

 In December last year, 195 member countries of the Paris of the UN Climate Change Conference adopted a landmark agreement designed to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The document stipulates among other things that by 2020 developing countries $ 100 billion will be allocated annually to finance their climate policies.

 Head of Energy Department “Greenpeace” Russia, Vladimir Chuprov then said: “Paris Agreement will have an impact on the energy sector around the world, including in Russia, helping to reduce the role of fossil fuels and increasing – renewable energy. This means that the economy based on oil and gas, will lose competitiveness. »