In a perfect world, every country and every person on the planet would all be aligned in protecting our environment. UN official makes bold statement following US exit from Paris Agreement: 'The call is for greater ambition' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Close on the heels of its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the US has pulled out from two more initiatives — a fund for responding to loss and damage and an international climate financing agreement to help developing countries transition away from fossil fuels.

Some US NGO staffers and children gather in New York holding a creative, friendly activity ahead of Climate Week and the Global Summit of the Future, on September 21, 2024. Photo: VCG

US formally submits notification of withdrawal from Paris Agreement. On January 27, 2025, Dorothy Camille Shea, the US acting ambassador to the

PARIS: Tense negotiations on the timing and content of the UN's next blockbuster assessment of global warming science opened in China on Monday,

This week’s G20 finance meeting must galvanise a global climate agenda to mitigate the grave impact of the US withdrawal.

Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement will also cast a shadow ... gas levels — can be produced quickly enough to inform a crucial 2028 UN “stocktake” of the global response to rising temperatures.

The High Ambition Coalition of European and climate vulnerable countries said grounding the 2028 UN progress report in up-to-date science was a crucial part of the Paris climate deal, and warned that severing that link “would undermine its credibility and integrity.”

Asian businesses will need to prepare for a world where they pay for their emissions—and adjust their strategy accordingly.

Brazil’s Minister for Environment and Climate Marina Silva acknowledged that the US pull-out from the Paris Agreement would hurt progress on climate action.