US formally exits global climate pact amid election uncertainty
- 04-Nov-2020
The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump
UN climate envoys agree on way forward, despite Trump
- 18-Nov-2017
BONN: Negotiations to bolster the climate-saving Paris Agreement, crafted over two decades, closed in Bonn on Saturday, deflated but not derailed by Donald Trump’s rejection of the treaty and defence of fossil fuels. The US President’s decision to yank the United States from the hard-fought global pact cast a long shadow over the talks, which […]
Trump pullout from climate pact means even hotter world: study
- 15-Nov-2017
BONN: US President Donald Trump’s pullout from the Paris Agreement will push up global temperatures nearly half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, according to a report released on Wednesday at UN climate talks in Bonn. If all countries — including the United States — honour carbon-cutting pledges under the 196-nation treaty, the […]
Climate activists march to keep coal in ground
- 04-Nov-2017
BONN: Several thousand demonstrators converged on Bonn on Saturday ahead of UN climate negotiations demanding that governments step up action to halt global warming, starting with a rapid phase-out of coal-burning power plants. Decked out in red to signify their “Stop Coal” campaign, the protesters chanted and beat drums as they snaked through the former […]
France’s Macron at UN defends Iran, climate deals
- 20-Sep-2017
UNITED NATIONS: French President Emmanuel Macron stood firm on Tuesday that landmark agreements on Iran and climate change would not change as he gently nudged Donald Trump to return to the fold. Macron, like Trump appearing for the first time at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders, met his US counterpart on Monday […]
Trump on ‘wrong side of history’ over climate: ex-UN chief
- 14-Jun-2017
MADRID: US President Donald Trump is “standing on the wrong side of history” after pulling out from the Paris climate accord, former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. “Climate change is like a fever” that must be fought, he told a conference in Madrid, saying he was deeply concerned about the US withdrawal. “I think […]
US backsliding on Paris deal a gift for China
- 02-Jun-2017
BEIJING: The US exit from the Paris climate pact is a gift to China’s ambitions to become world leader on everything from trade to global warming, despite its own mixed record. Beijing appeared well aware of the opening that it was given as it vowed to uphold the deal to cut carbon emissions after President […]
Obama slams Trump for exiting Paris climate deal
- 02-Jun-2017
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama slammed his successor President Donald Trump on Thursday for pulling out of the Paris climate deal, warning that the move would see the United States “reject the future.” “The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created,” Obama warned in […]
Trump pulls US out of Paris climate change accord
- 02-Jun-2017
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change. “I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve America’s interests,” the president declared in an address in the White House Rose Garden […]
Climate: What is the Paris Agreement?
- 02-Jun-2017
PARIS: On December 12, 2015, 195 countries gathered in the French capital to conclude the first truly universal climate treaty, the Paris Agreement, aimed at preventing the worst-case scenarios of global warming. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the United States was withdrawing from the pact, which took nearly two decades of often-acrimonious haggling to conclude. […]