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French President Emmanuel Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump in Paris in July. After Trump's decision to pull the US out of the global Paris Climate Agreement, Macron invited scientists and others from the US and elsewhere to come to France to help s

US scientists answer France’s call to come ‘make our planet great again’

August 1, 2017Global Politics

American climate scientists are responding to a plea made by French President Emmanuel Macron after President Donald Trump announced the US would pull out of the Paris climate agreement.

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