The US is part of the Paris agreement, a positive turning point to combat climate change

The USA is part of the Paris Agreement, a positive turning point to combat climate change,

What is the Paris Agreement? The document, signed in the French capital in 2015, aims to contain the temperature increase well below two degrees centigrade compared to pre-industrial levels, with the commitment to gradually limit the temperature increase to 1 , 5 degrees. Among other goals, there is to reach the peak of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to start immediately with the reductions, until a balance between emissions and cuts is found for the second half of the century.

All the signatory countries, including the US, then communicated their commitments at national level, having to provide for improvement reviews on a regular basis (every five years). Trump's exit in 2017 However, in June 2017, then President Trump, who has always been skeptical of global warming, signed the United States out of the deal. "We hope to find a new agreement that will be fairer - said Trump - The Paris climate agreement is the latest example of the fact that this text benefits other countries and leaves Americans fewer jobs and less American production ".

His decision was greeted with great apprehension by international leaders, but the president never returned to the decision. "The Trump administration is joining a small handful of nations rejecting the future," Obama commented at the time. Now, three and a half years later, Joe Biden has brought the US back into the deal.

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