French President Emmanuel Macron lauded new US President Joe Biden’s decision to return to the Paris climate accord on Wednesday, telling him “welcome back” in a congratulatory message after his inauguration.“We are together. We will be stronger to face the challenges of our time. Stronger to build our future. Stronger to protect our planet.
He will immediately rejoin the climate accord and stop the US exit from the World Health Organization, as well as setting new paths on immigration, the environment, Covid-19 and the economy.Following his one-year notice in 2019, Trump formally pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord in November last year, claiming it “was designed to kill the American economy” rather than save the environment.
The accord committed all nations to cut carbon emissions to limit warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and encouraged them to go down to 1.5 degrees.
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