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International agreement from 12 December 2015 within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020
Donald Trump’s second term so far is defined by a barrage of executive actions—218 executive orders as of early December 2025—and a small number of high-profile legislative wins such as the One Big Be...
President Trump’s second-term actions have been alleged to breach multiple international legal obligations across distinct domains: lethal maritime strikes on alleged drug traffickers, unilateral sanc...
Donald Trump repeatedly expressed skepticism of mainstream climate science during and around his presidency, using terms such as and stating he did not believe warming was man-made; he also made speci...
Voters and analysts disagree on whether Donald Trump’s second term (starting Jan 20, 2025) is “better” than his first (2017–2021). Early polls showed higher approval at the start of term two (47%) tha...
President Trump’s second term has been characterized by an aggressive use of executive power — by late November 2025 he had signed roughly 215–217 executive orders, plus dozens of memoranda and procla...
markedly lower trust in on the world stage than domestic approval polls indicate at home: a median of 34% internationally express some confidence in Trump while 62% do not, and more than half in 19 of...
Die überwältigende Mehrheit der Klimawissenschaft zieht das Fazit: Der gegenwärtige ist hauptsächlich menschengemacht, vor allem durch den Anstieg langlebiger seit Beginn der . Diese Einschätzung wird...
European leaders broadly condemned President Trump’s January 2025 decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, with the European Commission’s Ursula von der Leyen calling the pact ...
International leaders reacted to President Trump’s moves to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement with a mix of condemnation, warnings about global climate cooperation, and renewed pledg...
The Trump administration pursued a sustained deregulatory agenda across climate, air, water, wildlife and permitting rules from 2017–2021, with headline actions including withdrawal from the Paris Agr...
President Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from or suspend participation in a sweeping set of international organizations and treaties — a list his White House and State Department say tota...
Venezuela is not plainly “green” or “not green”: it is a country with enormous natural wealth, formal environmental laws and international climate pledges, yet its economy and governance have pushed p...
Mark Carney has used his World Economic Forum platform primarily to advance a finance-centred agenda for decarbonization and sustainable investment, acting as a forum speaker, Foundation Board member ...
Mainstream science and multiple recent reports say human activity—especially burning fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases—has been the principal driver of modern warming; NOAA and NASA state this u...
Major political milestones since the 1980s include formation of the IPCC in 1988 and early international treaties such as the Montreal Protocol in 1987; governments have oscillated between early recog...
President Biden’s foreign-policy record (2021–2025) emphasized rejoining international institutions, rallying allies on Russia and Ukraine, and using economic tools to compete with China; his administ...
President Donald Trump has repeatedly used high-profile speeches in 2025 to reject mainstream climate science and promote fossil fuels — most notably calling climate change a “con job” or “the greates...
The Trump administrations’ climate rollbacks included reversing the Clean Power Plan, weakening vehicle emissions standards, attempting to rescind the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” narrowing NEPA...
President Joe Biden’s first 100 days combined major legislative action on COVID-19 relief with broad executive orders reversing Trump-era policies; the most consequential law was the American Rescue P...