War on Warming: USA re-joins Paris Agreement
War on Warming: USA re-joins Paris Agreement With the current global pandemic, public focus has been pulled away from climate issues with the exception of how coronavirus has reduced our carbon emissions. However, Biden's inauguration brings a new era for climate politics. As of the 19 th February , the USA officially re-entered the Paris Agreement and joined 189 other countries in their fight against global warming, aimed at minimising temperature increase to a maximum of 2 ° C by 2100. Joe Biden. Credit: Ancho When Obama first joined the Paris agreement at COP21 , his main Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26% of 2005 values, by 2025. In January 2017, just 6 months after Trump was sworn in as president, he pulled the USA out of the Paris Climate accord, stating the agreement ‘ ’handicaps the US economy ’’ and puts them at a ‘ ’permanent disadvantage ’’. Negotiations were suggested, but never material...