Dr Joanna Depledge, Fellow at the Department's Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, has commented on US President Donald Trump's decision to remove the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Dr Depledge's comment has appeared in the Associated Press and the Washington Post.

Dr Joanna Depledge said,

It [the Paris Agreement] works as a binding but voluntary program. Every five years countries are required to submit a goal or plan for what it will do about heat-trapping emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases. And those goals — called National Determined Contributions or NDCs — are supposed to be more ambitious every five years