Most of the world's superpowers are members of the legally binding international treaty. View on euronews
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.
U.S. withdrawal from the world's primary climate pact will have a bigger impact - in the U.S. and globally - than the country's first retreat in 2017, analysts and diplomats told Reuters.
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.
US exit could provide green investment opportunities for UK - but Labour will also face an emboldened domestic opposition to climate policies
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
Solar power overtook coal in Europe's electricity mix for the first time in 2024 while gas declined for the fifth year in a row, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Thursday.
“Each year in the last decade is one of the 10 warmest on record. We are now teetering on the edge of passing the 1.5C level defined in the Paris Agreement, and the average of the last two years is already above this level,” said Samantha Burgess, climate lead at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which manages Copernicus.
The United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a blow to global cooperation on climate change, but other countries are marching ahead and stepping up leadership on the issue.