Paris climate agreement to come into force

Posted on 10 Oct 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

Following the EU’s ratification, the Paris Climate Agreement has now passed the threshold for it to come into force.

The agreement, which was created during last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, needed 55 countries to ratify it before it could come into force. In addition, these 55 countries would need to account for 55% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. While major CO2 emitting countries including the United States and China had…

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