US begins Paris climate accord exit

Washington's isolation from global efforts to battle warming condemned

The United States started the process of pulling out from the Paris Agreement on Monday, the first formal step in what will take a year to exit the global pact to fight climate change. Its actions will undermine the international solidarity in coping with the threat from global warming, analysts said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that he had filed a formal notice to the United Nations, starting the process.