What is the Paris Agreement? Trump pulled the US out — again

By Angela Fritz
CNN
January 20, 2025
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: United States

President Donald Trump signed actions on the first day of his second term to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, an international climate change treaty in which nearly 200 countries agreed to work together to limit global warming. …Representatives from the US were leaders in the Paris Agreement negotiations. It was adopted by nearly 200 countries during the Obama administration in 2015. Trump announced his intent to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement in 2017, though it wasn’t formalized until November 4, 2020, a day after the presidential election that Biden ultimately won. On the first day of his term, Biden announced his intent to reenter the Paris Agreement. On the first day of Trump’s second term in January 2025, Trump ordered the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement again as he sought to increase US production of fossil fuels. …In the meantime, a leading United Nations climate change official reiterated “the door remains open to the Paris Agreement.”

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