BRUSSELS: EU environment ministers agreed Friday (Saturday) to fast-track the ratification of the landmark Paris agreement on climate change, despite the fact that some national parliaments have yet to approve the deal.

“All member states greenlight early EU ratification of Paris agreement. What some believed impossible is now real,” European Union President Donald Tusk said on Twitter.

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