Syria has announced it intends to join the 2015 Paris agreement for slowing climate change, leaving the United States as the only country in the world opposed to the pact.
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| The UN weather agency says 2017 temperatures are set to be the second or third hottest on record. |
Syria, wracked by civil war, and Nicaragua were the only two nations outside the 195-nation pact when it was agreed in 2015.
Nicaragua's left-wing Government, which originally denounced the plan as too weak, signed up last month.
"I would like to affirm the Syrian Arab Republic's commitment to the Paris climate change accord," deputy Environment Minister Wadah Katmawi told a meeting of almost 200 countries at the November 6-17 climate talks in Bonn, Germany.
Read the ABC News story - “Paris accord: Syria plans to join climate agreement, leaving US only country opposed.”
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