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What are the implications of a country dropping out of the Paris Agreement?

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:23 am
by hannah
In 2017, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease all participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. The withdrawal took effect on November 4, 2020, one day after the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

But what does it actually mean if a country drops out of the Paris Agreement for good, and what implications would it have on climate change?