US returns to Paris climate accord, Biden vows to fight against global warming

Washington, Feb 19 (AFP/APP): The United States on Friday officially returned to the Paris climate accord, with President Joe Biden vowing to make the fight against global warming a top priority. A month after Biden took office, the world’s largest economy and second largest carbon emitter was formally back in the 2015 global agreement aimed at confronting the planet’s dangerously rising temperatures. The re-entry of the United States means that the Paris accord again includes virtually every country after Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump made the United States the sole outlier. In a speech to the Munich Security Conference hours after the US formally … Continue reading US returns to Paris climate accord, Biden vows to fight against global warming