U.S. and Syria will soon be the only countries not in the Paris Agreement

President Donald Trump dubbed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime a “dictatorship” and a “criminal regime” in his U.N. General Assembly speech. But the two leaders will soon be strange bedfellows.

The United States and Syria will be the only countries outside the Paris climate agreement after Nicaragua—one of only two countries that did not accept the agreement struck in 2015, along with Syria—indicated Monday it would sign up to the accord.

President Trump announced in June that he intended to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal, which aims to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels.

http://www.newsweek.com/paris-agreement-trump-climate-change-nicaragua-668741

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