EDITORIAL: Welcome to the real world that's Paris

4 Nov 2016

IT'S PARIS DAY – the day the Paris Agreement comes into force.

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The international climate treaty, negotiated in Paris in December last year,  has broken speed records by getting signed, ratified and into force in less than a year, leaving officials who are supposed to sort out the details of the agreement scrambling to catch up.

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