As Jonathan Freedland observes the EU should be playing a leadership role in delivering such an internatonal agreement on climate change. Indeed, if promoting action to address climate change were adopted as the new big idea at the heart of the EU, rather than promoting ever more free trade,  it would re-invigorate the union’s relationship with its increasingly sceptical citizens, and it might just help prevent the devastation of unchecked climate change too.

Read the article in the Guardian.