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