Newly-elected US Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden-Harris administration will rejoin the Paris climate agreement on the first day of taking office. She added that the United States will once again be at the forefront of the global climate crisis. Although it has been 39 days since they took office, Harris has not said anything specific.
Meanwhile, newly-elected US President Joe Biden has said he will take the United States back to the Paris climate deal once he takes office.
Leaders from around the world met in a virtual gathering on Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The United States which was once a significant part of the Paris Agreement quit the climate accord under President Donald Trump.
In another tweet Biden writes, We’re going to rally the world to push our progress further and faster and tackle the climate crisis head-on.
Last month, Trump defended his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, calling it "unfair and one-sided".
The United States formally left the 2015 Paris accord in November, becoming the first country to ever withdraw from an international climate change pact.
"I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris Climate accord, a very unfair act for the United States," Trump said on the sidelines of a virtual G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on every country to declare a "climate emergency" on Saturday, as world leaders marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord made mostly incremental pledges relative to the scale of the crisis.
Guterres made his call at a summit aimed at building on momentum behind the Paris deal.The United States did not attend Saturday's conference at the federal level. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/
