The Senate on Thursday greenlit
the ratification of the Paris climate change agreement, COP21.
The motion was definitively approved by a unanimous vote, with
only one abstention. Cabinet has already ratified the Paris
climate-change agreement following the European Parliament's
vote earlier this month. Premier Matteo Renzi said "Italy is
thinking of its children". The Paris Agreement, a deal within
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation starting in
2020, was adopted in December 2015. As of September 2016, 187
UNFCCC members had signed the treaty, 60 of which had ratified
it. The agreement will only enter into force when 55 countries
that produce at least 55% of the world's greenhouse gas
emissions ratify it. Although the minimum number of
ratifications has been reached, the ratifying states do not
produce the requisite percentage of greenhouse gases for the
agreement to enter into force.
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