US President Donald Trump wasted no time. On his first day as president, he signed an executive order and a letter to the UN in which he declared that the US would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. This is the second time Trump has done this in the last five years. Previously, Trump made the decision to withdraw the US from the climate agreement in November 2019. The official withdrawal took place a year later. His then-successor Joe Biden rejoined the deal in 2021.
The US is in line with Iran, Libya and Yemen
Withdrawal from the agreement puts the US in line with Iran, Libya and Yemen, that have not ratified an agreement aimed at limiting global warming and combating climate change.
As was the case five years ago, the current withdrawal procedure will take approximately one year to complete.
What is the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement was created in 2015 as a global treatyin which governments pledged to try to stop global warming. According to climatologists, the last one The relatively safe limit for global warming is 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levelsj. Exceeding this level may cause dramatic consequences for humanity. Therefore, to protect the world from the most serious effects of climate change, countries have committed to stopping the increase in average global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius compared to the level in pre-industrial times. They should also strive for it to be no more than 1.5 degrees.
The US withdrawal from the agreement is a serious blow to the climate. The United States is already the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, as well as the second-largest emitter of carbon dioxide emissions per capita.
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