The world won t wait - Biden needs to catch up
The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States has brought hope the country will play a central role in the world s energy transition and combating climate change. However, rather than teaching other countries lessons, the U.S. will need to catch up with the rest of the world, and it needs to do so quickly - the world won t wait for the U.S.Newly-inaugurated Joe Biden said one of his first executive orders as president of the USA would be to sign the country back into the Paris Agreement - the global commitment within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate .
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The US Is Back in the Paris Agreement, But More Is Needed to Stave Off Disaster
Activists are demanding the Biden-Harris administration pass a sweeping jobs bill to address the climate crisis head-on.
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Shortly after getting settled in the Oval Office on his first day on the job, President Joe Biden delivered on his commitment to re-join the Paris Agreement, the 2015 pact adopted by almost every country in the world to curb climate change in an attempt to effectively stave off a sixth mass extinction. The signature was his third in a stack of 17 executive orders. Now the Biden-Harris administration will send a letter to the United Nations announcing the decision, and the U.S. will officially be a party to the agreement again in 30 days.
Which countries have not signed Paris Agreement? Climate change accord explained!
So the United States are joining the Paris agreement again, but what other countries have not signed it? Read on to find out.
The Paris agreement was introduced in 2016 as a climate change treaty. Created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it aims to deal with greenhouse-gas-emissions, mitigation, and finance.
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Ultimately, the goal of the agreement is to keep the increase in the global average temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Joining the agreement means countries have a requirement to plan and report on its efforts to reduce global warming and emissions.