News Headline
U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord After Trump Stalls Global Warming Action for Four Years
Source
Scientific American
Publication Date
2020-11-04
The U.S.’s exit from the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement takes effect today, capping four years of President Donald Trump aggressively rolling back the Obama administration’s climate-change-mitigation policies. The acceleration of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions on Trump’s watch has been blunted by state- and city-level efforts, a burgeoning renewable energy market and the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic downturn.