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High-Level Signature Ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

22 April 2016 | UN Headquarters, New York

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Coverage — About | 22 Apr

A Youth representative opened the Paris Agreement signing ceremony

On Friday, 22 April 2016, the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change took place at the UN Headquarters in New York. Following an opening ceremony, 175 countries signed the Paris Agreement, the largest number of countries to ever sign a multilateral agreement on the day on which it opens for signature. After signing, Heads of State and Government met in parallel sessions to deliver national statements addressing their intention to ratify the Agreement, and outline their climate change policies and actions.

In the afternoon, a high-level special event addressed the theme “taking climate action to the next level: realizing the vision of the Paris Agreement.” The day was closed by statements from past, present and future Presidents of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), and an address by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling for greater ambition in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Ban Ki-moon gaveled the ceremony to a close at 6:46 pm.

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided web coverage and a briefing note from the Paris Climate Agreement Signing Ceremony. Our briefing note is available in HTML and PDF
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L-R: Ségolène Royal, COP 21 President, and Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France; François
Hollande, President, France; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco

Getrude Clement, a climate youth representative from Tanzania


President François Hollande of France

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon


Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil

President of the UNGA Mogens Lykketoft


Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada

Zhang Gaoli, Vice Premier, China


Joseph Kabila, President, Democratic Republic of Congo

Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister, Italy


Evo Morales, President, Bolivia

Enele Sosene Sopoaga, Prime Minister, Tuvalu

Delegates at the signing-ceremony


Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco

Ollanta Humala, President, Peru


Alexander Khloponin, Deputy Prime Minister, Russian Federation

Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group


Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Civil Society Representative, Chad

John Kerry, US Secretary of State

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor and UN Envoy on Climate Change

Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor and UN Envoy on Climate Change, addressing the plenary

197 children representing all the countries of the world invited delegates to stand up to combat climate change

Getrude Clement, a climate youth representative from Tanzania, called on delegates to stand with the children of the world

Signing of the Paris Agreement

François Hollande, President, France


Palau signs


Belize signs

John Kerry, US Secretary of State, signing the Paris Agreement
accompanied by his granddaughter


Maldives signs


The Philippines signs

Freundel Stuart, President, Barbados

High-level Event on "Taking Climate Action to the Next Level: Realizing the Vision of the Paris Agreement"

View of the high-level event with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

L-R: President of the UNGA Mogens Lykketoft; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon;
and Hoesung Lee, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Closing Plenary

Ségolène Royal, COP 21 President, and Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France


L-R: Ségolène Royal, COP 21 President, and Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France;
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; and Salaheddine Mezouar, President Designate of COP 22 and Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Morocco


Coverage — About | 22 Apr

IISD Reporting Services is grateful to the many donors of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) and recognizes the following as core contributors to the ENB: the European Union, the Government of Switzerland (the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. General Support for the Bulletin during 2016 is provided by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, SWAN International, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Japanese Ministry of Environment (through the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies - IGES), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).