U.s. Will Now Be 1 Of Only 2 Countries Out Of The Paris Climate Accord

And then there were two. This week, Nicaragua, one of the few holdouts from the Paris climate accords, did an about-face and said it will sign the agreement. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced that the Central American nation of 6 million people – about the size of Maryland – would sign the landmark pact voluntarily committing nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to El Nuevo Diario, one of the nation’s major newspapers. After President Barack Obama, who orchestrated the pact bringing together more than 190 nations, only two nations had yet to sign the agreement in April of this year. One was Syria, which was and still is in the middle of a bloody civil war.