The Trump administration has notified the U.N. that it will withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first step to exit the global pact to fight climate change
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said on Monday it filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.
An official from the French presidential office accompanying President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to China, said: “We regret this and this only makes the Franco-Chinese partnership on the climate and biodiversity more necessary.” “While it serves the political needs of the Trump administration, we will lose a lot of traction with respect to U.S. influence globally,” he said.
Trump has already moved, however, to unwind a slew of Obama-era rules limiting emissions - including from the electricity industry, automobiles and the oil and gas drilling sector. A report this year by state attorneys general said those rollbackscould amount to a boost in U.S. carbon emissions of more than 200 million tonnes a year by 2025.
Beyond that warming threshold, the planet becomes more likely to see dramatic cascading effects of climate change, from sea-level rise to more frequent intense storms, droughts, floods and heat waves, according to the report.
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