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We're now the ONLY country not in the Paris Agreement..
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GoldenRod
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Shawn
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We're now the ONLY country not in the Paris Agreement..
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-paris-agreement_us_5a01b87fe4b0368a4e86ed4d?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Syria took a break on Tuesday from its gruesome six-year civil war to announce plans to sign the Paris climate agreement, leaving the United States as the only country to reject the emissions-cutting deal.
The announcement came at the 23rd Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany, the world’s biggest climate conference. The non-binding Paris accord, through which signatories pledge to reduce emissions of planet-warming gases over the coming decades, was brokered in 2015, when the annual conference was held in the French capital.
The deal was considered historic because it was the first climate agreement to include the U.S. ? the world’s biggest historic emitter, with by far the largest per-capita carbon footprint ? and China, which currently produces the most carbon pollution on a national level. The U.S. took a lead role in shaping the deal.
Only war-torn Syria and Nicaragua, which protested the agreement’s failure to impose strict demands on major polluters, refused to sign.
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Syria is now more forward-thinking than we are....
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Posted 11/7/17 10:17 AM  |
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