The Paris Agreement was in part brokered by Obama and was seen as a major breakthrough after the previous accord, the Kyoto protocol, failed to include the US and China, the world’s two biggest ...

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the climate agreement at the White House in Washington, December 12. The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord on Saturday ...

President Obama on Wednesday commented on the news that the Paris Agreement to combat climate change will go into effect next month, calling it a possible “turning point for our planet ...

Mr. Obama’s Paris dare was an outrageous, brazen one that the Senate even more outrageously shied from confronting at the time.

President Barack Obama speaks about the Paris climate agreement from the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday Dec 12, 2015.

On an unseasonably mild December day in Washington, President Obama had reason to bask in the sun. Across the Atlantic, international climate negotiators completed an agreement that owed much of ...

President Obama announced the upcoming implementation of the international 2015 Paris agreement to combat climate change. In a statement in the White House Rose Garden, he said the agreement "will ...

The surprising way that Obama could drag a future Republican president into the international climate process.

President Obama is signing the Paris Accord, but The United States is not. To bind the country, the Agreement must be ratified as a treaty by two thirds of the Senate.

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.

Still, Obama acknowledged that the Paris Agreement is far from sufficient to end the dangers posed by climate change.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn't quite kept the world from overheating either.