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RIGA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Latvia has ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics announced in a post on Twitter on Monday.
On Feb. 2, 2017, Latvian lawmakers passed a bill approving the Paris agreement intended to restrict global warming by curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Foreign ministry spokesman Raimonds Jansons said Latvia had now finished all the national procedures for the climate agreement's ratification.
By ratifying the Paris agreement, Latvia has officially committed to EU member states' collective target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by at least 40 percent by 2030.
The legally-binding target has been set in order to keep global warming this century below 2.0 degrees Celsius the average temperature of the pre-industrial age. Enditem
