Kazakhstan on Tuesday became the4 180th nation to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations announced Wednesday. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Kazakhstan Foreign Affairs Minister Erlan Idrissov on Tuesday and congratulated him on the signing of the agreement, according to a U.N. notice.
Nearly 200 nations adopted the Paris Agreement last December at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework. The agreement opened for signature on April 22, at which time it was inked by 175 governments. The Cook Islands, Ecuador, Gambia, Seychelles, and now Kazakhstan have signed the agreement since then.
Nations have begun the process of ratifying the agreement. Thus far 22 nations, representing 1.08 percent of global emissions, have ratified the Paris Agreement, which will enter into force once 55 nations representing at least 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions have done so.
