In case you missed it, the Trump Administration last week announced that the U.S. would leave the Paris Agreement reached during COP21 in late 2015. And if you’ve really been asleep, then you have missed all the outrage expressed by world governments, NGOs and environmental leaders. The reality, however, is that the U.S. cannot back out of the global climate agreement until late 2019; and due to the treaty’s requirement that member states give one
U.S. cities, companies move forward on climate commitments
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