Although China and the US have ratified the Paris Agreement on the Climate, the European Union still has to do so. The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, believes that this is quite simply unthinkable and in an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 14 September he appealed for "a Europe that assumes its responsibilities".
He also used the opportunity of his state of the Union address to launch an appeal for the rapid ratification of this...