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USA – Out of Paris Deal

November 9 , 2019 1975 days 1806 0
  • The United States formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change citing "unfair economic burden" on Americans.
  • United States President Donald Trump had announced plans to exit the Pairs climate agreement in June 2017.
  • In 2001, the then US President George W Bush announced that the US was withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, the first international climate agreement.
  • The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance.
  • It adapted in 2015 at CoP21 or 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held at Paris.
  • The Paris Agreement opened for signature on 22 April 2016 – Earth Day – at UN Headquarters in New York.

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