Syria to sign up to Paris climate agreement

Syria is set to become the final country to sign up to the Paris Agreement, the world’s first comprehensive treaty on tackling climate change.

The move by the wartorn nation, which comes after Nicaragua ratified the agreement in October, means that all United Nations member states will have joined up.

And it leaves president Donald Trump “isolated” in his intention to pull the US out of the agreement.

At the latest annual UN climate talks, being hosted by Fiji in Bonn, Germany, a member of the Syrian delegation told fellow negotiators the accord would be signed “as soon as possible”. The agreement, secured in the French capital in December 2015, commits countries to holding global temperature rises to “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels.