It came as a surprise to nobody that one of Donald Trump’s first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order withdrawing the US from the Paris agreement on climate change.
Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that critics such as President Trump claim, but it hasn't kept the world from overheating, either. Here's a closer look.
President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the planet and our ability to adapt.
Trump's executive order called for an immediate withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The agreement requires one year notice, but there's room for interpretation.
Each country’s pledge toward the Paris goal is voluntary. The US commitment was to limit emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025.
Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.
Just three days later, billionaire Michael Bloomberg stepped in to help the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) remain fully funded despite the US endin
President Donald Trump said Monday he will again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.
President Trump again withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, a worldwide pact that aims to fight global warming. CBS News national environmental correspondent David Schechter reports on the move and its impact.
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The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the United States. In his ...