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U.N. Climate Change Conference Turns to Implementing Paris Agreement

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Tensions over how developed countries will help finance the transition to a lower-carbon energy system threaten to undermine implementation


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The conference, known as COP22, which kicks off Monday in Marrakesh, Morocco, benefits from the unexpectedly quick adoption of the Paris agreement. It entered into force Friday after at least 55 signatories representing more than 55% of global emissions previously ratified it, including the U.S., China, the European Union and India.
“The politically difficult step was Paris,” said Robert Stavins, an environmental economist at Harvard University. “The technically difficult steps now remain.”
The agreement is a collection of self-imposed national plans for holding emissions to a level scientists believe will prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). But the past year contained many reminders of how difficult implementing the agreement will be compared with the feel-good exercise of approving and ratifying it.
Resource: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-climate-change-conference-turns-to-implementing-paris-agreement-1478514604
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when :Nov 7 / 2016
why: A year after nearly 200 nations agreed to a global pact in Paris to combat climate change,what: To negotiate the agreement of climate change.where: Parishow: X
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ratify(V.) Sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid



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