EU ready to ratify Paris Agreement

The agreement, adopted by 95 countries last year, aims at setting a global framework to combat climate change

The European Union environment ministers have agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement, a landmark deal in world history that aims to combat climate change, on September 30.

'All member states greenlight early EU ratification of Paris Agreement. What some believed impossible is now real,' European Council President, Donald Tusk, said on his twitter account.

'I am happy to see that today the member states decided to make history together and bring closer the entry into force of the first ever universally binding climate change agreement,' European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said.

This agreement, adopted by 195 countries in December last year at the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21), sets the framework for global action on climate change.

The agreement will come to force 30 days after its ratification from at least 55 countries that account for around 55 per cent of the global emissions.