Facebook Twitter Pinterest Antonio Guterres and President Donald Trump at a UN Security Council meeting in 2018. A full 435 US mayors representing 71 million Americans have now signed up to Garcetti’s Climate Mayors organisation, committing them to adopt and uphold the Paris agreement. “When [Trump] pulled out of Paris, the mayors jumped in,” Boston mayor Marty Walsh told the Guardian at the conference. Facebook Twitter Pinterest New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell at her inauguration in 2018. Photograph: David J. Phillip/APIn LA, Garcetti said even members of Trump’s core voter base were beginning to become concerned about the climate.

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2019 17:26 UTC