As soon as he was elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) last January, the Belgian Rik Daems announced that he wanted to make the climate “an objective that moves heads and hearts” (see EUROPE B12412A18, B12438A21). One of his stated aims was to revive a recommendation voted by the Assembly in 2009, but still blocked by the Committee of Ministers, calling for the initiation of work on an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human...