Paris Agreement On Climate Change To Take Effect By November

It's time for the world to combat climate change. The global agreement has finally crossed its threshold, and the fight against climate change is about to commence, thanks to the support from the European Union, which sent the agreement into full force as it crossed the necessary 55% to take effect.

Countries like Canada, Bolivia, and Nepal have already raised backing for the 2015 agreement, as do countries that represent 56.87 percent of the world greenhouse emissions, pushing past the 55 percent needed to implement the agreement. As the UN News Center noted, EU's ratification put a total of 73 parties out of 197, which have signed the treaty.

The deal is going to formally take place 30 days after crossing the 55 percent threshold - on November 4, just four days before the US presidential election will take place. This is especially important, as Reuters noted, because of the opposing stances of the presidential candidates: Republican Donald Trump is strongly against the accord, while Democrat Hillary Clinton is a strong supporter.

President Barack Obama, however, called Wednesday a "a historic day in the fight to protect our planet for future generations." He also said that if the ratifying countries follows through on the commitment that the agreement embodies, it could be considered as a turning point for the planet.

ABC News noted that UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq also said on Wednesday that the EU and 10 other countries have already deposited their instruments of ratification. Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon praised the quick ratification of the treaty, saying that what once seemed unthinkable has now become unstoppable.

Yet, the load is still long. As Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University warned, a lot of hard work will have to be put to fulfill the Paris goal, adding that "without focused efforts starting now, we are not going to avoid falling over a very steep cliff."