Qatar has signed the Paris climate agreement. HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Mohamed bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi represented Qatar in signing the agreement during a ceremony at UN headquarters, New York. A record 175 countries signed the agreement during the ceremony on Friday, marking the largest number of nations ever signing an international agreement in a single day. The agreement, whose text was passed by nearly 200 countries in Paris in December, is the first universal action plan intended to mitigate the impacts of climate change and hold the rise in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. The agreement will go into effect 30 days after 55 countries accounting for at least 55% of global greenhouse emissions ratify it.
QATAR SIGNS
