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Which U.S. states and cities pledged to support the Paris Agreement after the 2017 withdrawal announcement?
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(From left) José Gurría, Justin Trudeau, Enrique Peña Nieto, Jim Yong Kim, François Hollande, Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, and Hailemariam Desalegn during the 2015 UN climate change conference that resulted in the Paris Agreement.
Following the 2017 announcement by the U.S. federal government to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a coalition of U.S. states and major cities publicly committed to upholding the treaty's climate goals independently.1
This effort was led by the governors of Washington, California, and New York, who formed a coalition alongside dozens of major urban centers across the country to maintain their support for the agreement's emissions-reduction targets despite the federal administration's stance.1