Obama calls PM Modi, thanks him for climate meet role

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

US President Barack Obama, right, meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on Monday. (Source: AP photo)

File photo: US President Barack Obama, right, meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris. (Source: AP)

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday rang up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thanked him for the constructive role India played in ensuring that the climate change conference in Paris was a success.

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 as they joined about 150 other heads of states and governments on the opening day of the two-week conference in the French capital.

President Obama thanked PM @narendramodi for his positive role and leadership in the successful outcome of #COP21. @COP21 @COP21en

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) December 16, 2015

A statement from the Prime Minister’s office said Obama thanked Modi for “his positive role and leadership in the successful outcome” of the conference. Obama acknowledged that India had played “a critical role” in making the Paris meeting a “historic success”.

President Obama said that India played a critical role in making Climate Change Paris Summit an historic success. @COP21 @India4Climate

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) December 16, 2015

More than 190 countries approved an agreement in Paris to put in place a new climate change framework after the year 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.

The phone call from the American President came three days after 195 countries reached a deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations.

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