Reuters: A new global pact to tackle climate change, agreed in Paris in December, could come into force two years earlier than the planned date of 2020, the U.N. climate chief has said.
"I think we will have a Paris agreement in effect in 2018, predicted Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a lecture in London on Monday evening.
The agreement, originally slated to take effect in 2020, will come into force once 55 countries representing...