Original title: the only one out of the group! The United States started the process of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement
The United States officially announced to the United Nations Thursday that it has officially started the process of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, making it the only country to withdraw from the agreement.
U.S. Secretary of state pompeio confirmed Thursday that the State Department has written to U.N. Secretary General Guterres to inform him that the United States will start the process of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, and that the whole process will be completed on November 4, 2020, the second day after the end of the U.S. presidential election.
"We are proud of the fact that the United States leads the world in reducing emissions, increasing resilience, improving the economy and safeguarding people," pompeio said on social media twitter. We have adopted a realistic and pragmatic model. '
He also reiterated president Trump's statement last year that the Paris climate agreement has created an "unfair economic burden" on the United States.
It is reported that the United States is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Trump announced in 2017 that it would let the United States withdraw from this historic agreement signed by nearly 200 countries around the world, and promised to revitalize the U.S. oil, gas and coal industry.
According to the Paris climate agreement, the U.S. government can only formally start the exit process three years after the agreement comes into force, and the exit process takes one year. November 4, 2019 is the earliest time trump can issue a formal notice to the United Nations.
The Paris climate agreement was adopted at the Paris Climate Change Conference on December 12, 2015 and entered into force on November 4, 2016.