Greenhouse gas

The Paris Environmental Agreement entered into force officially on Friday, reported Reuters, cited by BTA.

This will put pressure on nearly 200 countries to start reducing greenhouse gases emissions.

The agreement is aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

Nearly 200 nations have accepted a deal for the reduction of greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air-conditioners, reported Reuters.

The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key threshold on Oct. 5.

India, the world's third biggest carbon emitter, was set to ratify the Paris agreement on climate change on Oct. 2 on the birthday of the country's famously ascetic independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

India, with a population of 1.3 billion people, is the latest big polluter to formally sign onto the historic accord which now takes a major step towards becoming reality.

The desire is to highlight the importance of forests, wood and green areas for safeguarding biodiversity and providing a healthy environment for people and animals.

The Municipality of Ljubljana said that forests were a key factor in mitigating the effects of climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Global economic growth did not translate into more harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector last year, the IEA said on March 16, a strong indication that growth and increased pollution no longer go hand in hand.

A historic agreement attempting to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been reached at the climate change summit in Paris.

After two weeks of negotiations ministers and bureaucrats from all over the world decided to cut carbon emissions.

The richest tenth of the world's people produce half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest half - most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change - produce only one tenth, Oxfam said on Dec. 2. 

A group of civil society organisations gathered in the South East Europe Sustainable Energy Policy Program launched a video game version of the South East Europe 2050 Energy Model on Monday, as UN climate change talks open in Paris.

The goal is to make audiences in the region aware of choices about the energy and environmental development of their countries.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius expressed regret on Nov. 12 over reported remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that the Paris climate summit will not deliver a binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions.

"I think that it's a formulation which could have been more fortunate," Fabius told journalists on the sidelines of the EU-Africa summit in Malta.