On Nov. 4, the day after the election, the United States will officially exit the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
The date is a coincidence. Still, the timing underscores a crucial victory for the Trump administration in its efforts to derail federal action on global warming, which the president dismisses as a hoax.
When President Trump announced in June 2017 that the U.S. intended to back out of the promises it made under the Paris Agreement, many climate experts and diplomats worried that there would be a domino effect. If too many countries left the agreement, many feared that international climate action would slow so much that the goal of the Paris agreement — to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures — would be impossible to meet.
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