What Happened the Last Time Trump Withdrew From the Paris Agreement
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.
Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do
The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner. It’s a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce a worsening climate change problem and withstand the changing political winds in the United States.
Our guest experts answer your questions about the Paris climate deal and about becoming a better public speaker.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he will again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, ...
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