Exactly zero EU governments have ratified the Paris Agreement to date.

China and the US just ratified the world's first comprehensive climate deal, the Paris Agreement. More states are urgently needed for the UN treaty to come into force -- and EU states need to ratify both separately and together.

All EU governments signed back in April, but not a single European government has ratified the treaty yet. The EU is "getting ready", according to Climate Commissioner, Miguel Arias Cañete. Well get on with it then!

The fossil fuel industry has been resisting a UN deal on climate change for decades. Our governments need to stand up to filthy industry and put people and planet first. 

For the Paris Agreement to come into force, at least 55 countries representing 55% of the world's climate emissions must ratify the deal. Until then it isn't legally binding, and states can continue funding fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

EU governments can't argue that they're waiting for major polluters to ratify, now that the world's No. 1 and 2 are on board. The global media are reporting it as a breakthrough, and rightly so. We must get the media to also focus on the EU now, to ensure that Europe doesn't fall behind even further.

If the Paris agreement comes into force this year as hoped, it means the nearly 200 governments party to it will become obliged to meet emissions-cutting pledges made before the deal last December. That's why the fossil fuel industry is lobbying so hard to prevent progress on the Paris Agreement.

SumOfUs members across the globe campaigned tirelessly last year to stop corporations interfering in the UN talks in Paris. The treaty has been at least 20 years in the making, but it will have been for nothing if EU states don't all ratify it.

Let's tell EU leaders to get a move on!

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