For malice, you’d have to go a long way to beat the way Trump spent the first few minutes of his speech trashing the record of Joe Biden. Only an hour or so before, the outgoing president had graciously welcomed the incoming president into the White House – and was sitting right behind Trump as he tore him to shreds.
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.
With so much federal backtracking already underway, all eyes now turn toward states like ours to lead the effort against climate change.
The president on Monday announced his intention to withdraw the country, for the second time, from the global emissions reduction pact.
In a Day 1 executive order, President Donald Trump withdrew from the landmark climate accord. Additional orders on energy are expected.
On top of leaving the Paris Agreement, Trump is reviewing around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries
The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written to both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the U.S.
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.
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.
President Donald Trump on his first day in office again withdrew the U.S. from a landmark global pact to fight climate change. So what is the Paris Agreement? And what happens to it now?
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.