Loose Change: A news roundup

We start this Friday with news that the European Union cleared a major hurdle toward ratifying the Paris Agreement, meaning the global climate deal is poised to soon come into force. Today, environment ministers from all 28 member countries agreed to “fast-track” Paris Agreement ratification, allowing the EU to ratify as a collective unit as opposed to waiting until each country completed its domestic ratification process. The executive European Commission called the move “historic” and said the EU could formally...