The Paris climate agreement just took a big step toward becoming international law
 

The Paris climate agreement just took a big step toward becoming international law
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on a diplomatic mission to ensure that the Paris Agreement on Climate Change goes into force before he leaves ****** at the end of the year. With 31 countries formally ratifying the agreement on Wednesday, that goal took a major step toward becoming reality.

When the agreement was negotiated in France in December, many countries and environmental groups assumed that it would enter into force in 2020. Most international treaties take years, sometimes decades or more, to formally take effect as each nation goes through its own domestic process of ratifying or otherwise formally joining the pact. Read more...

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