Guterres strongly urged all the governments around the world to "stay the course, to remain committed to the implementation of the Paris Agreement to the benefit of all of us".
Yet the world’s most populous country remains heavily reliant on coal to generate electricity and power its steel mills — a habit that could be hard to break without stifling its economic aspirations.
President Donald Trump today declared the US would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord, saying the "draconian" deal unfairly punished America but benefited countries such as India and China.
Protesting against US President’s decision, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has quit two of Trump’s business advisory councils.
Former US president Barack Obama has said that by pulling out of the Paris climate pact, Trump Administration has joined a small handful of nations that reject the future.
Top European leaders have pledged to keep fighting against the Climate change as US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris accord.
60 US Mayors reiterated their commitment to the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA) that calls for adopting goals of the Paris Agreement.
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he was pulling the US from the landmark Paris climate accord.
The White House had signaled earlier in the week that withdrawal was likely, but Trump has been known to change his mind at the last minute on such major decisions.
If the US withdraws from the Paris accord, signed by nearly 200 countries, then it would be a huge setback to the international efforts to curtail global warming given the fact that the US is the largest polluter in the world.
US President Donald Trump is likely to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate change agreement which was a major foreign policy legacy of his predecessor Barack Obama, media reports said today
Trump’s surprise announcement comes after he declined to commit to staying in a sweeping climate deal, refusing to give into intense international pressure.
President Donald Trump, who once proclaimed global warming a Chinese hoax, will soon decide whether the United States stays in or leaves a 2015 Paris climate change accord in which nearly every nation agreed to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.
The landmark Paris climate pact was a bad deal for the US as it "front-loaded" its costs while India and China "back-loaded" theirs, causing a contraction in the American economy, the Trump administration has said.
Amid concerns that the Trump administration could withdraw the US from the ambitious Paris Climate agreement, India has said "walking back" from commitments made to implement the landmark deal "can harm us all".
The Paris agreement to combat climate change agreed last year officially came into force today, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start executing plans to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.
Praising India’s step of ratifying historic Paris agreement on climate change, US president Barack Obama welcomed the move and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian people have carried on Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy. {twitter:twitter.com/POTUS
India on Sunday ratified the historic Paris agreement on climate change at the United Nations, putting the ten-month global pact into force by the end of this year. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed
The Union Cabinet today approved ratification of Paris Agreement which will take place on October 2
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