{"id":330472,"date":"2021-01-21T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330472"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:41:12","slug":"president-joe-biden-signs-executive-order-to-rejoin-paris-climate-change-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-joe-biden-signs-executive-order-to-rejoin-paris-climate-change-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden signs executive order to rejoin Paris climate change accord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325532 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/joe-biden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/joe-biden.jpg 473w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/joe-biden-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/>US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to reinstate the US to the Paris climate change agreement just hours after being sworn in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,\u201d the White House tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re back in the Paris Climate Agreement,\u201d Biden said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris in December 2015, and entered into force on November 4, 2016. It aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Biden signed a series of executive orders to launch his administration including a mask mandate for all federal buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Biden in a tweet said, \u201cAfter taking the oath of office this afternoon, I got right to work taking action to:- Control the pandemic- Provide economic relief- Tackle climate change- Advance racial equity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWearing masks isn&#8217;t a partisan issue \u2014 it&#8217;s a patriotic act that can save countless lives. That&#8217;s why I signed an executive order today issuing a mask mandate on federal property. It&#8217;s time to mask up, America,\u201d Biden said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday, @POTUS issued a mask mandate on federal property, launching his \u201c100 Day Masking Challenge\u201d as part of our efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve,\u201d the White House tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to reinstate the US to the Paris climate change agreement just hours after being sworn in. \u201cToday, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,\u201d the White House tweeted. \u201cWe&#8217;re back in the Paris Climate Agreement,\u201d Biden said. The Paris Agreement is a legally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330473,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330472\/revisions\/330473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}