Wopke Hoekstra, European commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth, discusses the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.
Coming years will be vital well beyond Europe, all continents will have to speed up transition towards net zero, deal with growing burden of climate change,' says von der Leyen - Anadolu Ajansı
“The Paris Agreement continues to be the best hope for all humanity. So Europe will stay the course, and keep working with all nations that want to protect nature and stop global warming,” the European Union’s top executive said in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Trump is pulling America out of the Paris Agreement, leaving the U.S. as the only major emitter not part of the treaty. It's a loss for U.S. businesses and the planet.
Video. Speaking at the Davos Summit, Ursula von der Leyen emphasided the EU's dedication to the Paris climate agreement and urged international cooperation, despite Trump’s decision to withdraw.
On Day 1 of his presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US’ exit from the landmark Paris Agreement that set a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Now that the American president has again decided to leave the international climate change treaty,
The 1.5C target is generally accepted to refer to the 20-year average, rather than a single year. So the temperature rise recorded in 2024 does not mean the Paris Agreement threshold has been breached.
Although hardly a surprise, President Trump’s executive decision to exit the international effort to halt global heating for a second time has been met with dismay on this side of the Atlantic. View o
The returning US leader also wants more money from Nato members, threatened Canada tariffs and talked about the AI race with China.
As world leaders grapple with the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year's COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in what will be a fierce dispute over who will pay for the global transition to cleaner energy sources.