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UN Push For Fast-Track Ratification As Signatories Get Cold Feet on Paris Climate Deal

• technocracy.news

The United Nations has issued a plea for nations to fast-track ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement as some countries are backtracking on support for the deal's sweeping restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged nations to attend a "special event" Thursday where they may deposit their "instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the Paris Agreement on climate change."

"I urge you to accelerate your country's domestic process for ratification of the Agreement this year," Mr. Ban said in a statement.

His push for rapid ratification comes amid the increasingly chilly reception for the agreement, adopted by 195 parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, by nations concerned about the impact of the carbon restrictions.

The change of heart even has a name: "Clexit," short for "climate exit," a take-off on "Brexit," the successful June 23 British vote to leave the European Union.


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