Miami-Dade Backs Paris Climate Agreement That President Trump Rejected

"Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday endorsed the Paris climate accord, giving the symbolic and explicit backing that the county’s mayor declined to provide after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement three weeks ago.

'This our affirmation,' said Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who sponsored the resolution to support the 2015 agreement and its goal of limiting the planet’s warming to under two degrees Celsius by the end of the century. The slowdown would come from a reduction in greenhouse emissions, the primary culprit in the rising seas already threatening South Florida.

'We’re at the forefront of what’s happening globally,' said Levine Cava, a Democrat. 'It’s very important for us to weigh in.'"

Douglas Hanks reports for the Miami Herald June 21, 2017.