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Barack Obama calls PM Modi, thanks him for success at Paris climate summit

by IBNS 17 Dec 2015, 08:29 am

New Delhi, Dec 17 (IBNS) US President Barack Obama on Wednesday rang up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanked him for the constructive role India played at the climate change summit in Paris.

"President Obama thanked PM Narendra Modi for his positive role and leadership in the successful outcome of COP21," PMO India tweeted.

 Obama and Modi have had regular conversation over the climate change meeting in Paris, which concluded last Saturday with a global agreement. 

The two leaders had held a bilateral meeting on this issue in Paris on November 30. About 150 other heads of states and governments participated on the opening day of the two-week conference in the French capital.

 The PMO said Obama acknowledged that India had played “a critical role” in making the Paris meeting a “historic success”.

More than 190 countries approved an agreement in Paris to put in place a new climate change framework after  2020. This agreement aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, fast enough to keep average global temperatures from rising beyond 2 degrees celsius from preindustrial times, besides facilitating steps that countries need to take to adapt to the impacts of climate change.