Climate Changed
Now Even Syria Is Joining the Paris Climate Agreement
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the deal may have inadvertently strengthened other nations’ resolve.
"Climate Planet," an exhibition near the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 6, 2017.
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Syria told diplomats gathered in Bonn this week for annual United Nations climate negotiations that it will sign the Paris Agreement, making the U.S. the sole outlier.
Nearly 200 countries pledged in the French capital in December 2015 to pursue national policies that together would avert dangerous climate change by keeping warming “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” The terms of the agreement would allow the U.S. to leave the pact in 2020.