In the lead up to the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted in 2015, more than 160 countries and the European Union submitted their own plans to address climate change, known as
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).
Parts of the United States are experiencing blizzard and record low temperatures, with
sharks freezing in the Atlantic and cold-snapped iguanas
falling from trees in Florida.
Over its first year, the Trump administration has taken extreme steps to unravel progress on U.S. climate action domestically. Last month, President Trump’s administration
reiterated its intention to
abandon the Paris Agreement,
isolating the United States internationally.