# India deposits its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 2 October 2016 India deposited its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement with the UN Secretary-General, on Gandhi Jayanti.

## Context

The environment ministry prepared. [Modi](/people/narendra-modi) politically owned the timing. He did not write the Agreement text. Later NDCs and a net-zero 2070 speech are neighbouring later instruments.

The International Solar Alliance launch is a neighbouring earlier Paris-week instrument. A 2021 Glasgow 2070 sentence is a neighbouring later speech.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

United Nations carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is decarbonisation policy: a completed ratification by a large emitter is a dated legal participation, not a delivered 1.5°C path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2 October 2016 deposit of India’s Paris ratification, recorded by the UN Treaty Collection and by independent wires.

Not established: that later coal additions were thereby forbidden, or a unique same-day gigatonne coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The depositary recorded. He did not write the treaty text.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies India deposits its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement, not a later speech about India deposits its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. India deposits its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement on 2016-10-02 is not a licence to treat every later United Nations communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average India deposits its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He politically owned the ratification timing. The depositary recorded. He did not write the treaty text. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-climatechange-idUSKCN1220J5
- https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVII-7-d&chapter=27

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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