El Presidente Biden anunció una contribución de $1.000 millones al Fondo Verde Climático, una iniciativa creada para ayudar a las naciones en desarrollo a reducir su contaminación climática y adaptarse a los efectos de la crisis climática.
El Secretario John Kerry, enviado presidencial especial sobre el clima, anunció una nueva iniciativa de créditos de carbono—el Acelerador de la Transición Energética—para animar a las compañías privadas ayudar a los países en desarrollo a financiar la transición de los combustibles fósiles a la energía limpia y renovable.
BONN, GERMANY -- Today, following weeks of momentum signaling the end of the coal era, the COP23 climate negotiations are coming to a close.
Bonn, Germany – Today, members of the U.S. People’s Delegation delivered over 1 million signatures from the “I am still in” petition, signaling to the international community that people across America will lead on climate regardless of federal inaction.
Washington D.C. – Today, as international leaders meet in Bonn, Germany, for climate negotiations, a large, diverse coalition is joining together for a #StillIn Day of Action to show that state and local officials, businesses, tribal leaders and advocacy groups are stepping up in the absence of leadership from the Trump administration on climate.
BONN, GERMANY -- Today, Syria announced that it will join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only country in the world who has indicated that they will not to participate in the Accord. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. had helped lead negotiations, crafting the global agreement. The Trump administration is attempting to withdraw America from the agreement using incorrect statements and baseless claims about it as rational.
Today, Myron Ebell announced that President Trump intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. Ebell ran the Environmental Protection Agency’s transition team prior to Trump’s inauguration.
This weekend, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt left the G-7 environmental ministers meeting after the first day. Shortly thereafter, the environmental ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the EU released a communique on environmental issues, including one separate chapter on the climate crisis, furthering the G-6 - Trump rift which began Taormina, Italy at the G-7 summit at the end of May.
Today, Donald Trump announced he intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.
An expert panel of advocates from major American environmental and civil society nonprofits will respond to President Trump’s Rose Garden press conference, where he is expected to announce whether his administration will honor the United States’ commitment to the global Paris Climate Agreement.
Today, it was widely reported that Donald Trump intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.
In response to Donald Trump’s reported plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, Climate Parents Director Lisa Hoyos issued the following statement.