Countries staying committed to climate plans after US Paris pact exit, UN climate chief says | News Today News
Countries are staying committed to their national climate plans and looking to lead the clean energy transition, as the United States plans to exit the Paris climate agreement, the UN’s top climate official said in his first speech of the year on Thursday. Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, laid out priorities ahead of annual climate talks in November, and encouraged countries to prepare stronger national climate plans this year, even after US President Donald Trump said he will remove the world’s second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter from the Paris agreement. “A country may step back, but others are already stepping into their place to seize the opportunity, and to reap the massive rewards: stronger economic growth, more jobs, less pollution and far lower health costs, more secure and affordable energy,” Stiell said in a speech in Brazil’s capital Brasilia, alongside COP30 President Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago. Story continues below this ad Stiell said in the 10 years since the Paris agreement was adopted, the world has become …
