The Paris Agreement is an international agreement to lower worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in order to mitigate climate change. [Analysis: Whatever Trump decides on Paris, he’s already taken the U.S. out of the climate game]A withdrawal would put the United States in the same camp as Nicaragua and Syria: a tiny group of countries refusing to participate in the almost universally supported Paris climate change agreement. [Just don’t call it ‘climate change’: How the government is rebranding in the age of Trump]A downward revision would certainly prompt criticism from the international community, but not nearly so much as an abandonment. The Paris agreement is, after all, the first global accord on climate change action that has managed to unify both developed and developing nations behind a single framework to cut emissions. But that is an even more radical move, which would further withdraw the United States from all international climate change negotiations.

Source: Washington Post May 31, 2017 14:33 UTC