Tag: Paris Agreement

“It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic announcement by the World Bank.”

To create a climate-safe world doesn't simply require impressive targets for the next two decades – it requires urgent action in the next two years.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is a catastrophe, but it has inspired a whirlwind of bottom-up climate activism.

“We’re here to tell the world that Donald Trump does not represent the majority view in our country, that overwhelmingly people do believe that the planet is dangerously warming and that human activity is causing it and that we have to do something about it.”

China and South Korea could be game changers on climate – and create a more peaceful region in the process.

Ortega's move leaves Trump in a two-member club with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, one of the world's most brutal dictators.

Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe.

Trump follows previous U.S. presidents who have undermined climate action: The only path to climate justice is people power.

“This is the wrong decision for America and the planet on many levels.”

The administration’s lawyer thinks there might be legal ramifications if the U.S. stays in the Paris Climate Agreement but doesn’t cut emissions. No one who worked on the deal agrees.