Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement should not slow the global momentum towards renewable energy investments that the deal created, the UN said Wednesday.

"We are moving forward regardless of what this administration is or is not doing, because we have to," a manager of the group America Is All In told Newsweek.

The move by billionaire Mike Bloomberg comes in response to President Donald Trump's move to pull funding for U.N. climate programs.

Former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg said that he would help fund the United Nations' mission to fight climate change after President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Many global travel brands have aligned their climate targets with the Paris Agreement. The U.S. exit from the pact may not change that.

The United States will be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Analysts say the country will burn a lot more natural gas in the coming years to meet soaring electricity demand, potentially locking in decades of heat-trapping emissions.

Cornell researchers have discovered a way for ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA), one of the most abundant types of microorganisms on Earth, to produce nitrous oxide, a potent and long-lasting greenhouse gas.

Saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a "survival strategy" for the planet, the UN said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's play Kyoto – first seen at the RSC in Stratford – is set at the UN Climate Change Conference in 1997, when countries around the world agreed the first international treaty on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump's executive order called for an immediate withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The agreement requires one year notice, but there's room for interpretation.