‘Getting us back on track’: UC Berkeley community expresses happiness about U.S. rejoining Paris Agreement
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Despite former president Donald Trump's decision for the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017, President Joe Biden rejoined the agreement his first day in office. Despite the happiness over this decision, according to Sharon Daraphonhdeth, UC Berkeley Student Environmental Resource Center director, a lot of work such as adopting the Green New Deal and addressing the impacts that climate change disproportionately has on low-income communities and communities of color remains. ((Photo by Gage Skidmore under CC BY-SA 2.0.)
For those in the campus community, President Joe Biden’s executive order for the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement is, while important, just one step of a larger effort to combat climate change.
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