Meanings of ratified the deal in English

The biggest polluter not to have ratified the deal is Russia, which ranks 5th.

Only a handful have not ratified the deal.

Party leader James Shaw said late this evening the party had ratified the deal offered by Labour.

Mexico has already ratified the deal.

The Philippines accounts for less than 1% of the world's emissions, and has not ratified the deal.

Oslo - The Norwegian parliament ratified the deal to accept Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic as new members of NATO yesterday.

Oil-rich United Arab Emirates also ratified the deal, as did nations considered particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, such as Kiribati and Bangladesh.

PACER Plus has been beset by criticism that it favours New Zealand and Australia, the only two other countries to have ratified the deal.

So far 17 states -mainly small island and low-lyingcoastal countries that are especially vulnerable to the sea-levelrise -have ratified the deal.

India ratified the deal at the weekend - the 63rd country to do so - and pushed the emissions threshold to 52 percent.

New Zealand, which ratified the deal last month, has committed to a target of reducing emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Through the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), which covers about 42,000 members in 15 different unions, public employees ratified the deal on July 17.