Today, the United States 🇺🇸 re-joined the #ParisAgreement - the international response to the climate crisis.īut what exactly is the Paris Agreement? And how does it work? /JOnm9s7iRf- UN Climate Change February 19, 2021 The Biden administration will make climate change a key component of its foreign policy, weaving it into its most important bilateral and multilateral conversations, Blinken said. Only hours after taking the oath of office, he signed an executive order initiating a 30-day process to reenter the pact. Rejoining the Paris Agreement was one of President Biden's top priorities. "Its purpose is both simple and expansive: to help us all avoid catastrophic planetary warming and to build resilience around the world to the impacts from climate change we already see." We know because we helped design it and make it a reality," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "The Paris Agreement is an unprecedented framework for global action. Nearly 200 nations have signed on to the landmark accord and committed to limit their greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius - preferably below 1.5 degrees Celsius - compared to pre-industrial temperatures. The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts.
Smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the sky at sunset in September near Emmet, Kan.
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