The United States formally withdrew from the Global Environment Agreement.
According to foreign media, after a three-year delay, the United States has finally become the first country to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which was terminated by US President Donald Trump.
President Trump actually announced his withdrawal from the agreement in June 2017, after which the United Nations was formally notified last year, but to wait a year after being notified according to UN rules. By the way, this wait is over today, Wednesday.
The decision to withdraw from the agreement came into effect on a day when US elections were held just a day earlier, and today the victory of either candidate will be announced.
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The United States may rejoin the agreement in the future, for which the next president will have to choose.
The Paris Agreement was signed by about 200 countries, with the United States becoming the first country to renege on its pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Since the beginning of the industrial age in the mid-eighteenth century, the United States has been the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
