Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Syria to Join Paris Agreement, Isolating US

Syria will sign the Paris climate deal, it announced at UN talks in Bonn, meaning the deal includes every nation, for now


Bashar al-Assad, whose government has been linked with brutal crimes against humanity, will sign up to the Paris climate deal (Photo Credit: Kremlin) Click to Enlarge.
Syria has announced that it will sign up to the Paris agreement at the COP23 climate summit in Bonn, meaning the US would be alone if it left the global pact to prevent climate catastrophe.

The declaration was made by a Syrian delegate at a plenary session of the conference this morning.

Since 2012, Syria has been embroiled in a bloody civil war that has claimed 300,000 lives. Its greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 added up to 88.19m tonnes – or 0.19% of the world total – according to US Aid.

Nicaragua, which gets half of its energy from renewable sources, had also been withholding its signature until stronger measures were in place.

But the small central American state relented last month, leaving just two countries standing opposed to the climate pact.  And now there is one.

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