"Europe’s vote will push the Paris Agreement across the finish line".

"It’s a deal.

The Paris Agreement on climate change is expected to meet all criteria to enter into force Wednesday when the European Union submits its ratification papers to the United Nations.

The move brings to a close an effort by the Obama administration, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others to set the global climate deal into motion before key leadership in certain countries—most obviously the United States—changes hands. In finally moving the deal over the finish line that called for 55 countries totaling 55 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, European leaders sought to reassert their climate leadership after months of internal wrangling."

Jean Chemnick reports for ClimateWire October 3, 2016. [2]

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