W hile most of the UK is preoccupied with the never-ending Brexit saga, over in Poland world leaders have gathered to hash out the terms of an agreement that makes Theresa May’s troubles look trivial.

The Paris Climate Accord has the potential to shape our planet’s history for decades, centuries and even millennia into the future by tying the world’s squabbling mess of factions and ideologies into one common goal: cutting greenhouse gas emissions and saving the planet from climate change.