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World Leaders Responded to Climate Change via Paris Agreement

Back in 2015, over 196 nations have taken part on a common cause and made a historical agreement. Collectively, they’ve made a vow to do their best efforts in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and pour research and development in discovering other sources of clean energy. This is in an effort to combat climate change.

Whether you believe it or not, USA is one of the leading polluters in the globe. Given the fact that they’re one of the major contributors to climate change, they have heavily supported the historic pact termed as Paris Agreement. This was under former US President Barack Obama’s administration.

The Start of a New World

The agreement was then adopted on the 12th of December 2015 at the UN climate summit in Paris France. This has the aim of limiting warming of planet to below 2 degrees Celsius while aiming to reach 1.5 degrees Celsius by the start of 2100. Being part of the pact, countries were expected to lower its emission of greenhouse gases. The US set a personal goal for itself by facilitating 26 to 28 percent reduction of 2005 greenhouse gas emission levels as 2025 enters. It is actually a big leap and a time-sensitive task as well.

According to an analysis from Nature Climate Change, it has been discovered that we need to stop emitting greenhouse gases by up to 2060 in an effort to keep the warming below the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold by 2100.

As a matter of fact, this effort has affected the world as a whole for various companies and industries have started the shift on more efficient industrial production. From crypto signals, market trends, etc. are affected by this agreement.

In 2016 of November, the agreement takes effect and required a minimum of 55 countries which account almost half of global emissions to be on board. To date, 179 countries or parties out of the 196 signatories has been accepted or ratified. There are only couple of nations in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC whose leaders have refused signing the agreement and these are Nicaragua and Syria.

Then All of a Sudden…

But come Trump’s administration, the President made an announcement in 2017 becoming the third country not to be included in this global pact. Though one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases, they’re the first nation to ever rescind in its commitment to the pact.

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