7 nov 2017

Climate Holdouts Nicaragua and Syria have Joined the Paris Accord, Leaving Trump Standing Alone

The Central American country of Nicaragua and war-torn Syria have joined the rest of the world's nations in agreeing to sign onto the Paris climate accord, as the world's nations meet in Bohn, Germany, for the world's largest climate summit. These two new inclusions to the accord leave the United States as the sole hold-out on the agreement, after President Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the accord last June.

President Daniel Ortega announced that Nicaragua would join the deal on September 20: "We have to be in solidarity with this large number of countries that are the first victims, who are already the victims and are the ones who will continue to suffer the impact of these disasters."

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