2011 launched negotiations to develop a new international climate change agreement that covers all countries.

The outcome of these negotiations was the Paris Climate Agreement, passed in 2015. The Paris Agreement
committed participating countries to significant limits on CO2 emissions. To date, 196 entities have signed on,
including the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases—China and the United States. The U.S. contribution to
the agreement was the Clean Power Plan, which planned to reduce power plant CO2 emissions across the U.S.
by 17% to pre-2005 levels by 2020, and to further reduce emissions by a cumulative 32% by 2030. In early

2017, the Trump Administration announced plans to back out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Trump opposed

the Clean Power plan, opting instead to shift focus to the use of natural gas. This represented a significant blow

to the success of the Paris Agreement. However, on his first day in office, President Biden, on behalf of the
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