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.
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.
The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has called on the United States of America to take its commitments under international law seriously, and carefully consider the ramifications of its intended withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
With the US out of the tent, the rest of the world can get on with climate action without Trump’s corrosive influence.
Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.
President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Washington Examiner reported. The move was among the numerous executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office after his inauguration. The new president called the climate agreement unfair and costly while announcing the decision.
Various European leaders reacted to President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement saying that they will stick to the landmark Paris climate agreement even though the United States has w
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
On his first day back in office as United States president, Donald Trump gave formal notice of his nation's exit from the Paris Agreement—a vital global treaty seeking to rein in climate change.
Brazil, the host of this year's COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in the climate financing discussions, the COP30 head said on Thursday, as world leaders grapple with the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
Davos: Donald Trump s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement should not slow the global momentum towards renewable