Several CARICOM Member States will join more than 150 countries across the world which will begin to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at a special Ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York today.

The Signing Ceremony takes place on the first day that the Agreement will open for signatures.  It will remain open for one year.

The Paris agreement was approved by the 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention of the Climate Change (UNFCCC) in COP21 in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015. In the agreement, all countries pledged to work to limit the temperature rise overall below 2 degrees Celsius, but are aiming to achieve a temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

See full list of States which have indicate their interest to sign the Paris Agreement