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Washington , DC – January 20: Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump takes part in a signing ceremony in the President’s Room following the 60th inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump became the 47th president of the United States in a rare indoor inauguration ceremony. Melina Mara/Pool via REUTERS© Thomson Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement on Monday, once again placing the world’s top historic emitter of greenhouse gases outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change.

Here are some reactions to the announcement of the second U.S. withdrawal from the climate pact:

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SIMON STIELL, U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

“Embracing (the global clean energy boom) will mean massive profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and clean air. Ignoring it only sends all that vast wealth to competitor economies, while climate disasters like droughts, wildfires and superstorms keep getting worse, destroying property and businesses, hitting nation-wide food production, and driving economy-wide price inflation.

“The door remains open to the Paris Agreement, and we welcome constructive engagement from any and all countries.”

WOPKE HOEKSTRA, EU CLIMATE COMMISSIONER

“It’s a truly unfortunate development that the world’s largest economy, and one of our closest allies in the fight against climate change, is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

“Despite this setback, we remain committed to working with the U.S. and our international partners to address the pressing issue of climate change… The Paris Agreement has strong foundations and is here to stay.”

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ALI MOHAMED, CHAIR OF THE AFRICA GROUP IN U.N. CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS AND KENYA’S CLIMATE ENVOY

“The leadership of the United States is critical in mobilising climate finance, advancing clean energy transitions, and ensuring the equitable implementation of global climate goals. Equally important is the need to promote multilateralism as the foundation for addressing climate change and other global challenges.”

EVANS NJEWA, CHAIR OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES GROUP IN U.N. CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS

“We deeply regret U.S.A. plans to exit from the Paris Agreement. This threatens to reverse hard-won gains in reducing emissions & puts our vulnerable countries at greater risk. The Paris Agreement remains a vital climate pact & we must protect it for the future of our planet & generation.”

NEW YORK GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL AND NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, CO-CHAIRS OF THE U.S. CLIMATE ALLIANCE

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“Our states and territories continue to have broad authority under the U.S. Constitution to protect our progress and advance the climate solutions we need. This does not change with a shift in federal administration … It’s critical for the international community to know that climate action will continue in the U.S. The Alliance will bring this message to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil (COP30) later this year.”

ANI DASGUPTA, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

“It simply makes no sense for the United States to voluntarily give up political influence and pass up opportunities to shape the exploding green energy market. Sitting on the sidelines also means the United States will have fewer levers to hold other major economies accountable for living up to their commitments.”

LAURENCE TUBIANA, CEO OF THE EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION AND A KEY ARCHITECT OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT

“The context today is very different to 2017. There is unstoppable economic momentum behind the global transition, which the U.S. has gained from and led, but now risks forfeiting.”

ABBY MAXMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF OXFAM AMERICA

“The U.S. should be leading the fight for a livable planet – not only because of its responsibility as the largest historical polluter, but because ignoring the problem at our doorstep will harm people living in the United States, who have recently suffered severe damage from climate-driven disasters like the Los Angeles wildfires and will face even more in the years ahead.”

(Reporting by Valerie VolcoviciEditing by Paul Simao and Peter Graff)

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Published Jan. 19, 2025, 12:34 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) — A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a laborious cold-water rescue.

The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday, about 200 feet (60 meters) from shore on Lake Abanakee, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced in a statement Friday. That lake is near the town of Indian Lake, about 60 miles (40 kilometers) south of Lake Placid and west of the Vermont border.

“There’s not training manual for getting moose out of the ice,” said Environmental Conservation Police officer, Lt. Robert Higgins, in a video statement recounting the event.

Higgins was dispatched to the lake thanks to a passerby who saw the moose break through the ice and called it in. Higgins asked for backup, and was quickly joined by a pair of forest rangers.

In New York, moose are sometimes poached by humans, and a handful die every year due to being hit by cars, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Across the U.S., these giant deer cousins face challenges from human-caused habitat loss and human-caused climate change that has led to warm summers and oppressive tick infestations, which can cause them to lose their fur.

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For this moose, the humans came to help. Moose can die from hypothermia, and they can’t easily climb onto ice once they have fallen through into water. Ice rescues are dangerous because the rescuers can also fall through.

“We were able use our ice rescue training to safely get out there,” said Forest Ranger Evan Nahor, in the video statement.

First they put on dry suits, so they would float and stay warm if they ended up in the water. Then they used a long metal “spud bar” to test the thickness of the ice, which varied from about one to four inches (2.5 to 10 centimeters). They brought safety ropes so that if one fell in, the others could pull them out.

They navigated a path across the lake, following the thickest path to the moose without breaking through, and knelt on sleds to distribute their weight.

The forest rangers used a chainsaw to cut away sections of ice connecting the area where the moose broke through to a thicker section of ice, while Higgins pushed the ice blocks underneath the channel, to get them out of the way.

The hope was for the moose to swim down the channel and climb out. A bull moose can weigh around 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms), so there wasn’t much chance of them being able to pull it out safely.

The moose didn’t swim toward the thick ice, so they tried to herd it down the channel they had cut. The bull moose wasn’t intimidated by the officials or their big metal sticks.

It was intimidated by their sleds.

“For whatever reason it was scared of those. So once we got behind it, we were able to direct it,” said Matt Savarie, the other forest ranger.

The giant moose quickly crawled onto the ice, but the cold and constant treading water — the ordeal lasted around 2 hours — had taken its toll.

“It was really tired. I was shivering. It didn’t have much energy left,” Higgins said. “We didn’t know if was going to be able to stand up or not.”

After 15 minutes, it found its footing and got up.

“It was just an amazing sight to see that huge moose stand up right in front of us,” he said.

Then it walked off into the woods.

With Post wires.