2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us

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By Naveena SadasivamDec 12, 2025, 4:45 am215 ptsTop
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change. Most conspicuously, it was the year the U.S. abandoned the effort. The Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which unites virtually all the world’s countries in a voluntary…

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