KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will ratify the Paris climate change agreement on Nov 4 as it is committed to combating global climate change, says Natural Resources and Environment Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
He announced that he will table the paper to the Cabinet for approval and subsequently deposit the ratification document with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in New York. “To date, 81 countries have ratified the treaty,” he told reporters at Parliament lobby on Wednesday (Oct 19).
The Paris Agreement will enter into force on Nov 4, 2016, 30 days after the date on which at least 55 parties to the Convention – accounting in total for at least an estimated 55 per cent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions – have deposited their ratification documents with the Depositary.
