New York, The 46th US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris climate accord on Wednesday (local time).<\/p>\n
\u201cI, Joseph R Biden Jr, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on December 12, 2015, do hereby accept the said Agreement and every article and clause thereof on behalf of the United States of America,\u201d read the order. \u201cWe are going to combat climate change in a way we have not done so far,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n
Paris accord goal is related to limit global warming to well below 2\u00b0 Celsius, and preferably limit it to 1.5\u00b0 Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.
\nIt was adopted by 196 countries at Conference of the Parties COP 21 in Paris in December 2015 and signed on 22nd April 2016.<\/p>\n
However, US President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in November 2020 making the signatories nation number to 195.
\nThe move by Biden has drawn accolades from Sundar Pichai, Google CEO who applauded him with the tweet, \u201cWe applaud @POTUS\u2019s quick action on COVID relief, the Paris Climate Accord, and immigration reform. Google has supported action on these important issues & we look forward to working with the new administration to help the US recover from the pandemic + grow our economy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the new Press Secretary of White House Jen Psaki called for policies to address the epithet, \u2018US \u2013 world\u2019s largest emitters of greenhouse gases\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnited States continues to be one of the world\u2019s largest emitters of greenhouse gases. We need to put in place policies and take steps here to address that as well,\u201d said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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