National Academy of Sciences members warn against opting out of Paris Agreement

This May, in a speech at an oil and natural gas conference in North Dakota, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pledged, if elected, to cancel the Paris Agreement on climate change that was adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at last December's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21). The UNFCCC describes the agreement as an historic effort to "to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future." The United States, which formally entered the Paris Agreement earlier this month, is one of 29 parties that ratified the agreement.

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