'America's Pledge': Can States and Cities Really Address Climate Change?
Climate-concerned Americans search for ways to keep the momentum going.
Countries around the world—including Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, and South Africa—condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change on Thursday. Emanuel Macron, the president of France, even ended a speech decrying the withdrawal with the words “Make the Planet Great Again!”
But one reaction stood out. Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, tweeted:
The statement seemed to separate the United States, a large country of 320 million people, from the executive and legislative branch of its current national government. It’s a good public-relations move for
