The U.S., led by then-President Barack Obama, was a key player in rounding up support for the agreement. It was difficult to imagine then that the U.S. would ever turn away from this agreement, widely regarded as the world's last, best chance to rein in global warming, that it had worked so hard to forge.
Fast forward one year later, and the U.S., **w under President Donald Trump, has become such a pariah on climate change that leaders of 19 of the 20 largest eco**mies in the world signed onto a climate and energy agenda that demotes the U.S. to a mere footprint — literally — on one of its pages.* Read more...