TEHRAN, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Paris climate accord is a global agreement and the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty does not inflict any harm on the accord, Iran's Vice President and Head of Environmental Protection Organization Masoumeh Ebtekar said on Saturday.
Paris Climate Agreement should be regarded as a golden opportunity leading us towards convergence, Ebtekar was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency.
Most of the world states are not satisfied with the U.S. president's quit decision and have criticized it, she said.
In an announcement on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to free domestic oil and coal industries from the constraints of the Paris Climate Agreement, which went into effect in 2016.
The historic agreement, which involves a unified and worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of global warming from 2020, was signed in Paris in 2015. Since then, more than 190 nations have signed the deal, with 146 of those countries having already ratified it.
