U.S. President Donald Trump will withdraw his country from the Paris climate agreement, which was signed and ratified by 186 countries in 2015. The goal of the agreement is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
According to Reuters, this is indicated in a statement of the White House.
The agency notes that this statement reflects Trump's skeptical attitude towards global warming, which he called a "hoax".
The U.S. withdrawal from the agreement will unfetter American oil and natural gas producers, freeing them from regulation.
Reuters writes that the U.S. already ranks first in the world in oil and gas production thanks to a multi-year "drilling boom" in Texas, New Mexico and other regions of the country. It was caused by the widespread use of fracking technology and high global prices that soared after russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It is noted that Trump also withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement during his presidential term. His decision was overturned by Joseph Biden, who succeeded Trump as president.
According to a recent United Nations report, the planet is expected to warm by more than 3 degrees Celsius by 2100. Such a temperature increase will lead to a rise in water levels in the World Ocean, heat waves and destructive storms.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the U.S. announced the day before that the cause of the large-scale forest fires in California was the Santa Ana winds and climate change, due to which forests lost their immunity to fires.
We previously wrote that in November 2024, schools in the Indian city of Delhi were canceled due to harmful smog, which is formed annually due to the use of firewood and coal for heating.
And in September, American and British scientists concluded that the melting of the Thwaites Glacier, which is known as the "doomsday" glacier, will accelerate in the coming decades due to climate change.
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