EU to ratify Paris climate agreement

EU member states agreed on Friday to sign the Paris climate agreement which could happen as soon as this Wednesday. "This is a success. Polish interests will be secured," Polish Environment Minister Jan Szyszko said. Poland, with its coal based energy mix, was one of the pact’s biggest opponents, fearing that such curb on CO2 emmissions would significantly hurt its energy sector, including coal mines. The pact will have to be ratified by the parliaments of all 28 member states. The Paris pact to limit global warming to “well below 2°C" will enter into force 30 days,  after 55 countries, which accountfor 55 percent of the planet’s emissions, hand their ratification papers to the offices of Ban Ki-Moon in New York.