Biden apologizes for US withdrawal from Paris climate pact
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has apologized to world leaders for the US withdrawal from the landmark 2016 Paris climate agreement, emphasizing that his administration has worked to reinstitute US leadership to fight the global phenomena.
“We immediately rejoined the Paris Agreement. We convened major climate summits and reestablished, I apologize we ever pulled out of the agreement,” he said at the UN climate summit being held at Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort town.
Former US President Donald Trump began the process to leave the 2016 Paris Agreement shortly after he assumed office in 2017, an action reversed by Biden who just hours after he assumed office announced that the US would return to the pact. The agreement seeks to curb global carbon emissions to curb an ongoing rise in global temperatures.
Biden said his administration had “delivered unprecedented progress at home” during the nearly two years in which he has been in office.
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