In his first few weeks, President Trump has frozen climate spending, shaken up staffing at agencies like the E.P.A. and set off a wave of legal challenges.
On President Trumpβs first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest of the world.
Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.
Sheila Morovatiβs Pacific Palisades home was spared, but her neighborhood was decimated in the Los Angeles fires. For her, climate change looms over the tragic losses.
Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carterβs environmental legacy. President Bidenβs climate initiatives could face a similar fate.