Two years after the US backed away from Paris

The World

Two years ago, President Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw the US from the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord that the US helped broker. Two years on, how much difference has it actually made? The World’s environment correspondent, Carolyn Beeler, reports.

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