The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner. It’s a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce a worsening climate change problem and withstand the changing political winds in the United States.

Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.

So what is the Paris Agreement, what have countries done since it was signed and what does this mean for COP29? What is the Paris Agreement? The Paris Agreement is a legally bindi