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We asked five scholars what the U.S. rejoining the international agreement means for the nation and the rest of the world, including for food security, safety and the changing climate. Nearly every country has ratified the 2015 agreement, which aims to keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. The U.S. was the only one to withdraw.
What rejoining Paris means for America’s place in the world
Morgan Bazilian,
Public Policy Professor and Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate, wrote in her poem for U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration, “When day comes we step out of the shade.” That’s a good articulation of why the United States is now rejoining the Paris Agreement.
By Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines; Deb Niemeier, University of Maryland; Edward R. Carr, Clark University; Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, and Walt Meier, NASA The United States is formally back in the Paris climate agreement as of February 19, 2021, nearly four years after former President Donald Trump announced it would pull out. We asked five scholars what
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Members of the TIMB include:
Sir Liam Donaldson (Former Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;
Professor Sheila Leatherman, CBE, Hon RCP, Professor of Global Health Policy, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina;
Dr Boluwatife Oluwafunmilola Lola-Dare, President, Centre for Health Sciences Training, Research and Development, CHESTRAD Global; and
Dr Senjuti Saha, Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF). The COVID-19 work of the Polio Programme has opened up insights and opportunities as to how some of the goals of polio transition (e.g. integrated service delivery) can be achieved more rapidly or in new ways.