“The adoption, signing and ratification of the Paris Agreement are wonderful news but by no means the end,” stated Ms. Patricia Espinosa the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (UNFCCC).
Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of MEIDECC, Siaosi Sovaleni, deposited Tonga’s instrument of signing of the Paris Agreement on April 22 2016, on behalf of the Kingdom of Tonga.
On August 12 2016, His Majesty King Tupou VI assented to the domestic ratification processes in His Privy Council at Nukuʻalofa.