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- Ban Ki-moon greets Leonardo DiCaprio at the Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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- Getrude Clement, youth representative from Tanzania, addresses the opening ceremony. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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- Ban Ki-moon addresses the Opening Ceremony of the High-Level Event for the Signature of the Paris Agreement. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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- Ban Ki-moon addresses the Opening Ceremony of the High-Level Event for the Signature of the Paris Agreement. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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- Mr. Ban poses with three of the speakers who addressed the opening segment of the signature ceremony. From left: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (from Chad), civil society representative; UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio; Getrude Clement, 16-year-old Tanzanian youth representative. UN Photo/Mark Garten
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- Ban Ki-moon (top, second from left) meets with Dilma Rousseff (top left), President of Brazil. Segolene Royal, Climate Minister of France, is in the foreground left. UN Photo/Mark Garten
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- Ban Ki-moon meets Youth Representatives at the Paris Climate Agreement Signing Ceremony. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reviews notes before hosting a signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on 22 April at the United Nations. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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- Ban Ki-moon greets former US Vice President and climate activist Al Gore at the luncheon on 22 April. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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- US Secretary of State John Kerry signs the Paris Agreement with his granddaughter on lap.
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- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and President François Hollande of France brief the press. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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- Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson (third from left) and the President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft (third from right), help to plant a tree on 22 April 2016. UN Photo/Kensuke Matsueda
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- Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson (third from left) and the President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft (third from right), speak at a tree-planting ceremony on 22 April 2016. UN Photo/Kensuke Matsueda
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To keep the global spotlight focused on climate change and build on the strong political momentum from Paris, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited representatives of all countries to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change at a special Ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters on 22 April. The Signing Ceremony took place on the first day that the Agreement opened for signatures, and marked the first step toward ensuring that the Agreement enters into legal force as quickly as possible.
175 countries signed the Agreement. See the full list.
The Paris Agreement was adopted by all 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. In the agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and given the grave risks, to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius. Implementation of the Paris Agreement is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a roadmap for climate actions that will reduce emissions and build climate resilience.
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Programme
All sessions will be livestreamed on http://webtv.un.org
Signing ceremony – download PDF
Opening and closing scenarios – download as PDF
Order of speakers at Opening Ceremony – download as PDF
Order of speakers: Countries A-L, Trusteeship Council Chamber – download as PDF
Order of speakers: Countries M-Z, ECOSOC Chamber – download as PDF
Luncheon Programme – download PDF
Media Accreditation for signing ceremony on 22 April
Please note that 8 APRIL 2016 was the deadline to request media accreditation for the High-Level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (April 22). This accreditation will cover any events taking place during the week of 18-22 April.
Paris Agreement – Frequently Asked Questions
The Paris Agreement is an ambitious, dynamic and universal agreement. It covers all countries and all emissions, and is designed to last. This is a monumental agreement. It solidifies international cooperation for climate change. It provides a way forward.
The Paris Agreement sends a powerful signal to markets that now is the time to invest in the low emission economy. It contains a transparency framework to build mutual trust and confidence.
It will serve as an important tool in mobilizing finance technological support and capacity building for developing countries. And it will also help to scale up global efforts to address and minimize loss and damage from climate change.
Paris is a beginning—we now have to implement the Agreement. But we have taken a giant step forward.
The adoption of the Agreement sends a message to the world that countries are serious about addressing climate change. It is a remarkable triumph that the 196 parties to the Convention have reached this agreement.
The agreement is ambitious and it provides all the tools we need to address climate change, for reducing emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The proof will be in the implementation.
Countries officially submitted their own nationally determined climate actions. They have an obligation to implement these plans, and if they do, it will bend the curve downward in the projected global temperature rise.
The agreement not only formalizes the process of developing national plans, but also it provides a binding requirement to assess and review progress on these plans. This mechanism will require countries to continuously upgrade their commitments and ensure that there will be no backtracking.
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