Ban Ki-moon is Confident About Enforcing the 2015 Paris Climate Deal till the End of the Year

Wednesday 21 September 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/americas/united-nations-climate-change.html?ref=international

UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has gained the approval of enough countries to finally make the 2015 Paris climate accord into binding law.

Though huge international agreements like the results from the 2015 Paris climate change normally take several years to become binding law, it has been of special interest to Ban Ki-moon to enforce the law prior to the next American presidential election. This would ensure that the next American president, no matter if Trump or Clinton, has to accept that law and take the resulting actions to reach the set goals. As one of the biggest economies having America on board would be a good and important step into the right direction to prevent climate change, whose effects would be felt all around the world. Especially, as Trump is an admitted denier of climate change this law could prevent him from making the consequences even worse on an international scale.