National procedures for ratifying the Paris Agreement are now definitely speeding up in the EU. On Thursday 22 September, the German parliament ratified this first universal agreement on the fight against climate change. Entry into force of the agreement this year is now within reach.
The previous day, when 31 countries ratified the agreement at a special ceremony in New York, it was the Slovak parliament that did the same, much to the pleasure of László Sólymos, the current...