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Singapore welcomes Paris climate change agreement

Xinhua, December 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Singapore welcomes the historic climate change agreement, which was adopted Saturday in Paris, Teo Chee Hean, deputy prime minister of Singapore said Sunday.

"It is a fair and comprehensive agreement, where all parties will take action to tackle this key issue of climate change that affects the future of the global community," Teo said in a statement.

Teo said Singapore will work towards the pledge to reduce the emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and to stabilise the country's emissions with the aim of peaking around 2030.

Adopted by the 196 Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement sets a target of holding the global average rise in temperature below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and preferably below 1.5 degrees.

Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, who attended Paris climate change conference, said the deal may not be a "perfect agreement," but it would set the world "on a collective journey for climate safety," according to Channel NewsAsia. Enditem