Written by Natalie Huet
World leaders and philanthropists are in the French capital to try to give new momentum to the fight against climate change, despite the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Two years after the landmark Paris climate accord, dozens of world leaders and philanthropists are back in the French capital on Tuesday for a summit where they are being urged to put their money where their mouth is – and help poorer countries deal with the impact of climate change.
French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the “One Planet” summit on the two-year anniversary of the Paris climate accord, which saw nearly 200 governments agree to end their heavy reliance on fossil fuels and limit further global warming.
Yet developing countries say rich nations are falling short of their pledge to provide $100 billion a year by 2020 to help them switch from fossil fuels to greener energy sources and adapt to rising temperatures and increasingly erratic weather.
Macron is hopeful the world will rise to the challenge posed by the United States’ decision, announced in June, to withdraw from the deal.
“The decision of Bill Gates, DiCaprio, but not Trumpjust to leave the Paris agreement was the very beginning of a new story. And I do believe that to our collective chance, it created a huge momentum,” Macron said on Monday evening.
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