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Austria begins ratification process for Paris Agreement on climate change

Xinhua, June 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Austrian cabinet on Tuesday given its approval to the Paris Agreement on reducing global warming and will now begin the ratification process, the environment ministry confirmed.

In a press release it noted that Austria is one of the first EU member states to have "formally started the ratification process."

The agreement, that is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to reduce rising global temperatures to well below two degrees Celcius, and ideally to below 1.5 degrees.

The ministry quoted Foreign Affairs Minister Sebastian Kurz as saying that the COP21 climate change conference in Paris last year represented an "historical breakthrough" in international climate change negotiations.

"What now counts, is the implementation of the agreement," he added. Endit