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Earth Day: Today is an Historic Day |
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Today was Earth Day, April 22nd. The doodle on Google celebrated the day, along with events worldwide.
Most importantly, the Paris climate agreement was signed today at the United Nations. 175 nations participated in signing. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said "Today is an historic day." However, each country must take the step to have their national government ratify the agreement, in order for it to take effect. According to Mr. Ban, "If all the countries that have signed today take the next step at the national level and join the Agreement, the world will have met the requirement needed for the Paris Agreement to enter into force." Fifteen nations also ratified the treaty, leaving the other 160 to do so. The ratifying countries so far include Barbados, Belize, Fiji, Grenada, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, Palau, Palestine, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Somalia and Tuvalu. Citizens from these countries must be very pleased. Let's urge the rest of the world to do so. Can we reach a tipping point where the world will come together to save the planet? The answer is we must. Earth Day was started in 1970 and has only gained momentum since then. Let our generation be the one to fully realize its goal.
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Dear Dante, for sure this Earth Day is historic for setting a new record of largest international signing ceremony. I am hopeful soon these countries ratify the Paris Agreement as well via their national legal procedure so that it enters into force on time.
Thank you for sharing :)
Posted 26-04-2016 21:49
Dante, thanks for posting. To make Earth Day as a 'real' historic day, we should step forward and come to action. Debates and plans without action have become meaningless, and global warming has come into the modern day. Hope all nations collorate to solve this international problem as soon as possible. Have a great day!
Posted 24-04-2016 23:47
great post Dante!
The Paris agreements will move our Earth one step further. We hope that the industrial countries and the least developed ones will assume their responsabilities.
Posted 24-04-2016 18:36
Thanks for your comments, I think it will be important to follow what happens with the national ratification process to make sure it goes into effect.
Posted 24-04-2016 04:41
Yes , it is absoultely a need of the hour that all nations join hands to save the planet. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 24-04-2016 01:43
Thanks for walking us through the history of Earth day. I hope it becomes more well-known, more celebrated because there aren't many that know about this day. But, it seems many of our ambassadors spent their time celebrating various events! Hope you too had a great time as well!
Posted 23-04-2016 23:55