India accounts for 4.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissionsPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that India would ratify the Paris climate deal on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. “The world is today worried about climate change, global warming, natural disasters. “The world is now talking about how to stop global warming; to prevent the temperature of the earth to rise by another two degrees. An agreement has been reached in Paris but a final step still needs to be taken – the CoP agreement has to be ratified,” he added. We follow his ideals and India will play its part in ratifying the Paris agreement,” he said.

Source: The Hindu September 25, 2016 11:57 UTC