In 2015, after years of intense negotiations, nearly 200 countries reached the Paris Climate Agreement.
The deal was struck in order to cut carbon emissions and limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 percent.
But US President Donald Trump has now refused to commit to the climate pact.
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler explains.
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