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.
Businessman and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week that his philanthropic foundation will contribute the U.S.’s financial obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement to the
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.
This marks the second time Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, has stepped in to fill the gap left by U.S. federal disengagement.
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 signed an executive order Monday evening officially beginning the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. The newly inaugurated president signed the order at an inauguration event at Washington’s Capital One arena,
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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.
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?
The United States’ second exit from the Paris Agreement wasn’t unexpected. Even before he was reelected, now-president Donald Trump had promised for months that he would pull the country out of the United Nations pact to limit global warming: the Paris climate “rip-off,
With the US out of the tent, the rest of the world can get on with climate action without Trump’s corrosive influence.