Paris Agreement Archives https://www.climatechangenews.com/tag/paris-agreement/ Climate change news, analysis, commentary, video and podcasts focused on developments in global climate politics Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:11:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.climatechangenews.com/wp-content/files/2025/02/cropped-site-icon-120x120.png Paris Agreement Archives https://www.climatechangenews.com/tag/paris-agreement/ 32 32 Paris Agreement watchdog weighs action against countries missing climate plan https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/03/11/paris-agreement-watchdog-weighs-action-against-countries-missing-climate-plan/ https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/03/11/paris-agreement-watchdog-weighs-action-against-countries-missing-climate-plan/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:09:30 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=83624 With more than 60 countries - including India, Argentina and Vietnam - still failing to submit updated NDCs, the oversight committee will discuss this month how to respond

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]]> https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/03/04/us-set-to-exit-un-climate-convention-in-february-2027/feed/ 0 Curbing methane is the fastest way to slow warming – but we’re off the pace https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/26/curbing-methane-is-the-fastest-way-to-slow-warming-but-were-off-the-pace/ https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/26/curbing-methane-is-the-fastest-way-to-slow-warming-but-were-off-the-pace/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:42:41 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=83216 Scientific assessments show that the technical potential exists to meet a global pledge to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 - the gap lies in implementation

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]]> https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/26/curbing-methane-is-the-fastest-way-to-slow-warming-but-were-off-the-pace/feed/ 0 Explainer: Out of Paris, but will the US formally quit the UN climate regime? https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/28/explainer-out-of-paris-but-will-the-us-formally-quit-the-un-climate-regime/ https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/28/explainer-out-of-paris-but-will-the-us-formally-quit-the-un-climate-regime/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:42:18 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=82283 The Trump administration has decided to withdraw the US from the broader UN climate convention, raising questions about the legality of the move and what it means in practice

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]]> After Trump’s pullback, Bloomberg promises to fill US funding gap to UN climate body https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/23/after-trumps-pullback-bloomberg-promises-to-fill-us-funding-gap-to-un-climate-body/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:42:51 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=56020 The announcement comes after Trump said the US should "immediately cease or revoke" any financial commitment made under the UNFCCC

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]]> What Trump’s second term means for climate action in the US and beyond https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/15/what-trump-second-term-means-for-climate-action-in-the-us-and-beyond/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:56:24 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=55831 The new president is expected to exit the Paris Agreement, slash climate finance and wage war on science - but clean energy may get an easier ride

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]]> Legal experts say Trump could quit Paris pact – but leaving UNFCCC much harder https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/04/legal-experts-say-trump-could-quit-paris-pact-but-leaving-unfccc-much-harder/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:43:36 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=53890 As the US Senate approved the US joining the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it’s unclear if a president could easily pull the country out

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]]> Climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana backed by some left-wing parties as next French PM https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/07/17/climate-diplomat-laurence-tubiana-backed-by-some-left-parties-as-next-french-pm/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:35:21 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=52126 But she is opposed by hard-left coalition partner La France insoumise, which fears she is too close to centrist President Macron

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]]> Paris agreement’s police force begins with rebuke to Vatican https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/05/11/paris-agreements-police-force-begins-with-rebuke-to-vatican/ Thu, 11 May 2023 12:04:38 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=48502 The Pope's home state has not yet issued a climate plan, which is against the rules of the Paris Agreement it ratified last year

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]]> What is the global stocktake of climate action and why does it matter? https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/04/27/what-is-the-global-stocktake-of-climate-action-and-why-does-it-matter/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:40:30 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=48449 The first Global Stocktake will tell us collective efforts need to be stepped up to reach the Paris Agreement goals. The question is how countries will respond to it.

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]]> Lula will update Brazil’s ‘insufficient’ climate plans if elected: advisor https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/10/07/lula-campaign-update-brazil-climate-plan-ndc-new/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:22:19 +0000 https://climatechangenews.com/?p=47293 The former president will prioritise tackling deforestation if he wins the runoff against Jair Bolsonaro, says environment chief Izabella Teixeira

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]]> As US formally rejoins the Paris Agreement, eyes turn to 2030 emissions goal https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/02/19/us-formally-rejoins-paris-agreement-eyes-turn-2030-emissions-goal/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:06:41 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=43496 Now the US is back in the Paris Agreement, it is expected to set a 2030 emissions target, with campaigners calling for at least 50% cuts

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]]> UK Supreme Court hears climate case on Heathrow airport expansion https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/10/08/uk-supreme-court-hears-climate-case-heathrow-airport-expansion/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:37:54 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=42620 Heathrow Airport is challenging a ruling that quashed plans to build a third runway earlier this year, based on the UK commitment to the Paris Agreement

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]]> Which countries have not ratified the Paris climate agreement? https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/08/13/countries-yet-ratify-paris-agreement/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:00:05 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=36964 Over a decade after the Paris Agreement was adopted, just three of the 197 countries have not formally backed the deal - the US will soon join them

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]]> Marshall Islands, Suriname, Norway upgrade climate plans before Cop26 https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/02/10/which-countries-updated-ndc-2020-marshall-islands-suriname-norway-cop26/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:08:12 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=41246 The three nations account for 0.1% of global emissions. Norway says 9 February was the deadline for new plans before climate talks in November

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]]> ‘Miles off track’ – Climate Weekly https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/02/07/miles-off-track-climate-weekly/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:10:32 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=41236 Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events

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]]> UK walks diplomatic tightrope for 2020 climate summit after shaky start https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/02/04/uk-walks-diplomatic-tightrope-2020-climate-summit-shaky-start/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:54:57 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=41223 Boris Johnson officially launched Cop26 on Tuesday but gave little indication as to how the government is going to leverage the world into taking bolder climate action

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]]> What happens next? – Climate Weekly https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/11/08/happens-next-climate-weekly/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:41:14 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=40728 Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events

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]]> Trump begins formal US withdrawal from Paris Agreement https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/11/04/trump-begins-formal-us-withdrawal-paris-agreement/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:34:08 +0000 https://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=40699 US will leave climate deal one day after 2020 presidential election, although a Democrat winner could reenter almost immediately

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]]> China should consider increasing Paris climate pledge early – government thinktank https://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/06/06/china-consider-increasing-paris-climate-pledge-2020-government-thinktank/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:02:55 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=36676 Influential agency recommends China, which is likely to beat its 2030 target for cutting carbon, revisit the pledge it made to the UN deal

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]]> ‘UN reformer’ Guterres must do more on climate change https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/09/20/un-reformer-guterres-needs-climate-change/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:34:49 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34830 Climate change risks are global and intersecting, so why doesn't the UN do more to treat them that way?

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]]> NGO demands Trump-Pruitt emails on Paris withdrawal https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/08/24/ngo-demands-trump-pruitt-emails-paris-withdrawal/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:33:58 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34641 The Center for Biological Diversity is seeking documents that influenced the US president's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement

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]]> A bottle of brandy that Trump won’t leave the Paris deal. Any takers? https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/08/17/bottle-brandy-trump-wont-leave-paris-deal-takers/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:14:22 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34595 Trump's US remains firmly in the Paris climate deal. Richard Black reckons that's how it will stay and he's prepared to put his brandy where his mouth is

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Time Magazine has said it. The BBC has said it. The Guardian, too.

All agree that US President Donald Trump has pulled his country out of the Paris Agreement – the 2015 deal under the United Nations climate convention in which every nation vowed to constrain its greenhouse gas emissions and thus hold climate change within bounds that many regard as ‘safe’.

So it must be true, right?

Well; I’ve thought for a while (and written before) that it ain’t necessarily so. The US clearly hasn’t withdrawn, despite the newsprint; and my personal conclusion is that it probably won’t.

Remember that there are basically two ways for the US to withdraw. One is to abide by the terms of the Agreement – which means it can’t submit formal notice to withdraw until November 2019, which then takes a further year to take effect. The withdrawal date turns out to be the day after the next US Presidential election. When Mr Trump spoke with so much fanfare about pulling out back in June, in the White House Rose Garden, he implied that he was taking this formal course; and this was confirmed in a diplomatic cable leaked to Reuters last week.

The second course is just to walk away – what I described earlier as the ‘Cartman solution’. But there’s no sign of that happening.

So, by my reckoning the US is in for the duration. Last week I decided to put my money where my gob is, and offer a bet on it. Follow my Twitter stream and there’s a bottle of brandy up for grabs for anyone who thinks the US is seriously on the way out.

So far, no takers; not even from those organisations that advocated for the US to withdraw and, after Mr Trump made his Rose Garden speech on 1 June, argued that he’d just turned the Paris Agreement into a pile of ashes from which all other nations might as well withdraw as well.

And last week, Climate Home also suggested that Trump’s US is a remainer, not an exiteer.

So I’m assuming that basically, I’m right.

The offer still stands…

Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a week that Climate Home has published carrying this argument. Do you disagree and want to take Richard up on his bet? Write us an opposing op-ed. Email: km@climatehome.org

Trump finds a compromise

Peering beneath, as our American friends say, ‘the hood’, it should be clear how and why the administration has settled on this position.

First of all, ask this: To whom does Donald Trump really talk? Answer: To his own supporters.

They will in general not read the New York Times, listen to National Public Radio or follow climate change analysts on Twitter. What they will hear is that the president is safeguarding jobs and the American way of life by forcing the French, the Chinese and everyone else to renegotiate the terms of a deeply unfair agreement.

American negotiators, as the leaked cable shows, will be at this year’s UN summit. It may well be there and then that they’re instructed to say they’ve made the new deal – or maybe it’ll be the summit after, or any point between.

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For that’s surely the likely conclusion – the president announcing a new deal under which the US will not be held to the emission-cutting target or the financial pledge made by his predecessor.

Those of us on this side of the media landscape know the US can roll back on both things anyway with no negotiation (and, in fact, already has). But in Donald’s rhetorical kingdom, that doesn’t matter.

Meanwhile, the US has avoided creating massive diplomatic ructions by abandoning the Paris process or its wider UN parent. Business, which in general likes the deal, will also be to some extent mollified. And paradoxically US emissions are likely to keep falling – not because of Trump policies, but because for the moment, electricity generation will continue its step-change from coal to renewables and gas.

So everyone’s a winner, right?

Collateral damage

Well… not really.

The moves that president Trump is putting in place will damage national and international moves to combat climate change.

Internationally, the lack of US diplomatic pressure for strong action will lead to other countries lessening the pace, even though none look like following the Trumpist doctrine entirely (and indeed the recent G20 meeting saw remarkable solidarity among the remaining 19). The cancellation of US money for the Green Climate Fund may reduce the speed of decarbonisation in poorer countries.

Nationally, rollback of regulations making motor vehicles more efficient will slow emissions reduction in that sector. Abandoning requirements for oil and gas wells and refineries to reduce methane leakage is another negative move. And slashing federal support for renewable energy completes the set.

Nevertheless… for the moment at least, the Paris deal is intact, the United States delegation at its appointed seat. And we can reasonably expect a number of other countries to step up their own decarbonisation efforts fairly soon – notably Germany, where Angela Merkel will, by all accounts, finally get a grip of her coal industry, assuming the polls are right and she walks back into the Chancellorship.

The big unknown is still the fate of Donald Trump himself. He’s survived so many incidents that would normally derail a candidacy or an incumbency that one becomes cautious about making any kind of assumptions, but… the mood music around his handling of the far-right Charlottesville incident, even from Republican party grandees, is not harmonious.

And perversely, that might give anti-Trump greens a little pause for thought.

The Trump presidency has been deeply incompetent in many regards, failing to pass measures that are claimed to be priorities and failing to approve staff appointments critical to policy implementation.

Would a Mike Pence administration run as poorly? If it wouldn’t, then arguably the Paris Agreement is better off with a floundering Donald Trump remaining in charge than with a swift Trexit.

Meanwhile, the brandy bet remains on offer. C’mon, internet – can you deliver where Twitter failed?

Richard Black is director of the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit. He is a former BBC science and environment correspondent. This blog was originally posted on the ECIU website. 

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]]> Trump lays groundwork for staying in Paris Agreement https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/08/11/trump-lays-groundwork-staying-inside-paris-agreement/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:12:04 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34563 After notifying the UN that he intends to leave the Paris climate deal, the prospect of Donald Trump doing so seems increasingly uncertain

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]]> Trump letter to UN on leaving Paris climate accord – in full https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/08/07/trump-tells-un-intention-leave-paris-climate-accord-full/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 09:46:08 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34529 Trump's communication with the UN and media release clarified some details and set the scene for political manoeuvring to come

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]]> Trump to submit notice of Paris withdrawal to UN https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/08/04/trump-submit-notice-paris-withdrawal-un-reports/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:26:20 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34523 White House to write to UN to inform of US intention to withdraw from climate deal, but remain engaged in hope of securing "more favourable" terms

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]]> Paris climate deal needs to be politically, not legally, binding https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/07/26/paris-climate-deal-needs-politically-not-legally-binding/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:49:30 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34367 Whether countries have the legal right to back out of their climate commitments is irrelevant. It's up to defenders to make sure it hurts them politically

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]]> May meets Trump on climate, but her Brexit will damage the Paris accord https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/07/07/may-meets-trump-climate-brexit-threatens-paris-accord/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 08:51:48 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34275 Despite May's G20 overture to Trump, her government is preparing a divorce from the EU that will have profound negative consequences for the climate

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]]> If US states are really ‘still in’ Paris, here’s what they need to do https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/07/06/us-states-really-still-paris-heres-need/ Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:58:59 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34270 The Paris accord isn't only about cutting emissions, some states are already finding ways to meet climate finance commitments

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]]> Modi and Adani: the old friends laying waste to India’s environment https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/27/modi-adani-old-friends-laying-waste-indias-environment/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:54:38 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34189 India's environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister's industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?

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]]> US cities and states back Paris deal but ignore climate finance https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/15/us-cities-states-back-paris-deal-ignore-climate-finance/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:52:09 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34114 Several US states and cities have committed to cut emissions despite president Trump, but only Seattle remembered cash commitments to the developing world

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]]> Seattle pledges support for climate fund barred by Trump https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/14/seattle-pledges-support-green-climate-fund/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:05:34 +0000 http://www.climatechangenews.com/?p=34105 Council resolution goes beyond backing emissions reductions, stepping up to honour the financial commitments made by the US

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