WASHINGTON — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn’t quite kept the world from overheating either.

Andre Correa do Lago, who will preside over the first climate conference in the Amazon rainforest in November, praised China’s “extraordinary progress” on combatting climate change

When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.

The president on Monday announced his intention to withdraw the country, for the second time, from the global emissions reduction pact.

Beijing’s green transition long-term commitment regardless of how international landscape may evolve, Vice Premier Ding tells Davos forum - Anadolu Ajansı

China vowed on Jan. 21 to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements -- the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accord -- after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.

President Trump stopped short of setting down fresh tariffs on China in his first hours in office, but he cited Beijing in signing several of his executive orders, including decisions to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization,

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in what will be a fierce dispute over who will pay for the global transition to cleaner energy sources.

The United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate accords and World Health Organization opens a power vaccum for adversaries like China to fill.

His day-one declarations aim to cripple clean energy, boost major polluters, and undermine actions meant to safeguard humanity.

Trump addressed the World Economic Forum, talking about his election win, denigrating Biden and threatening tariffs on countries that don't bring manufacturing to the U.S.