The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written to both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the U.S.

President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the planet and our ability to adapt.

President Trump signed a decree on Monday, just after his inauguration, for the United States to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the Paris Accord on climate change. During his first term,