What about global warming?
On Wednesday, the United States officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement, the global pact aimed at averting catastrophic climate change.
If President Trump wins re-election, it would very likely seal the isolation of the U.S. for the next four years from the nearly 200 other nations committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
If Joe Biden wins and rejoins the accord, as he has promised, the United States would find that it has a lot of catching up to do.
Other nations: China, Japan and South Korea have all put in place more ambitious plans to reduce their own emissions of planet-warming gases. Those commitments, and others by Britain and the European Union, mean that nearly half of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are now covered by net-zero emissions targets, according to Carbon Brief, a climate analysis site.
The New York Times
