Paris accord
China stakes claim as climate leader while lambasting US 'obstruction'
The goals, which include a pledge to reach peak emissions in 2030, are still the most concrete yet announced by China, which is the world's biggest polluter and...
Last week’s European heatwave underscored what is at stake in a decisive phase of talks to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement, a collective shot at avoiding climate breakdown.
Emmanuel Macron, who has worked to establish his role as a global leader, says modern-day science was revealing with each day the danger that global warming posed to the planet.
Emmanuel Macron will want to show that progress towards those hard-fought goals is being made, even after President Donald Trump said in June that he was withdrawing from the pact.
Last month President Trump announced he was pulling the US out of a landmark international climate accord clinched two years ago in Paris.
The US President has ignored many voices in making his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement.
Timeline with details on US President Donald Trump's decisions on climate change. On Thursday he announced the US would withdraw from the Paris Accord.
Trump said the Paris accord would undermine the US economy, cost US jobs, weaken American national sovereignty and put the country at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world.
Scientists says Arctic sea ice has been shrinking steadily in recent decades, damaging the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and wildlife.
The Paris climate deal