US officially rejoins 2015 Paris Agreement
- US officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on Friday
- President Joe Biden signed executive orders to join the agreement in January
- US first signed the climate agreement in 2016
United States of America officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, confirmed US embassy in India. This comes after US President Joe Biden signed executive orders to join the Paris climate accord on his very first day at the oval office.
The US first signed the climate agreement in 2016, ensuring that the country would reduce greenhouse emissions by 26-28% from 2005 levels by 202.
However, Biden’s immediate predecessor Donald Trump took the country out of the climate accord in 2020, a move highly condemned by world leaders.
The
Paris Agreement is an agreement on climate change and mitigation of various
climate related issues based within the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was signed in 2016.
The long-term temperature goal of Paris climate accord is to keep the increase in global average temperature at check to well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial level.
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