French parliament adopts bill to ratify Paris climate agreement


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 May 2016

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) embraces U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) who holds his two-year-old granddaughter Isabelle Dobbs-Higginson after signing the Paris Agreement on climate change at United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

PARIS (Reuters) - French parliamentarians in a near unanimous vote on Tuesday adopted a bill authorising the government to ratify the landmark climate agreement reached by 195 nations in Paris in December.

France, which is chairing the COP21 climate talks until the end of the year, is the first European Union member state to move ahead with the ratification of the agreement which aims to curb global warming.

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