(Eagle News) — Senators on Tuesday posed no objections to the ratification of the Paris Agreement, with all 22 senators present concurring.
“I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to my colleagues’ unanimous support on this historic day of the Senate’s concurrence in the accession to the Paris Agreement,” Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on climate change, said.
She said the country’s accession to the Paris Agreement “strengthens its role in climate talks, which means that it can exercise governance, oversight, leadership, and decision-making in the implementation of the Agreement.”
“This accord is a manifesto for climate justice,” she said.
“It shows that developing nations and the developed countries could pursue climate action and uphold climate justice together,” she added.
The Paris Agreement was signed by more than a hundred countries on April 22, 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
It aims to keep the increase in the global average temperature to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and the temperature increase to 1.5° above pre-industrial levels.
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