The Paris Agreement is an international agreement to lower worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate climate change. After months of speculation, it might finally be happening: President Trump appears ready to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are supposedly urging Trump to stick with the Paris agreement. (Only in the United States, of course, is the question of climate change subject to partisan debate.) — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 31, 2017Although the Paris agreement is nonbinding, it may take three to four years to formally withdraw.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2017 05:03 UTC