President Joe Biden on Monday told a group of fellow heads of government he was sorry that former president Donald Trump’s 2017 decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords put the world “behind the eight ball” in the fight against climate change.
“I do apologise for the fact that the United States, in the last administration, pulled out of the Paris accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit,” Mr Biden said while speaking at aMr Trump had announced that the US would exit the agreement — which he claimed put America “at a permanent disadvantage” compared with other industrialised nations — in 2017, but because of the agreement’s withdrawal provisions, it took until 4 November 2020, the day after US voters voted to...
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