MEPs have given their backing to the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year.<br /><br /> EU approval for the accord is set to be signed off by the bloc’s 28 governments later this week.<br /><br /> After that, ratification documents can be sent to the United Nations.<br /><br /> “It would spark the transformation to the lower carbon high opportunity climate resilient economy and we need to keep global temperatures increase well below two degrees,” said Ban-Ki Moon, the UN secretary general, in an address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.<br /><br /> Ratification by the EU would bring the treaty over the threshold for it to enter into force.<br /><br /> Countries that represent at least 55 percent of global emissions need to ratify the accord for that happen.<br /><br /> The US and China, the world’s top two emitters, have already done so.<br />
