Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 1:19:23 GMT
Ended the unfair and very costly Paris Climate Accord.
Nearly every country in the world came together in Paris in 2015 to forge a new agreement on how to fight global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But just a couple of years later, President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the historic Paris accord.
That has been formally set into motion and the process will be complete in November, right after the election.
Nell Greenfieldboyce
NPR Science Desk Correspondent
Nearly every country in the world came together in Paris in 2015 to forge a new agreement on how to fight global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But just a couple of years later, President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the historic Paris accord.
That has been formally set into motion and the process will be complete in November, right after the election.
Nell Greenfieldboyce
NPR Science Desk Correspondent