Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman called on the United States to resume the Paris Agreement on climate change for "humanitarian issues".

“No country has the right to withdraw from the climate change agreement, especially the United States, as this is not an American issue or someone else, it is a humanitarian issue,” Karman said through a translator in a news conference in southeastern Guatemala on Thursday. 

President Donald Trump had announced early June that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement to Limit Global Warming, signed in December 2015 by 195 countries in France's capital, Paris. 

"So we're getting out," Trump said. "The Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States."

Karman has toured Central America to learn about the human rights situation alongside Nobel laureates Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala), Shirin Ebadi (Iran) and Judy Williams (United States).

On Thursday, the delegation visited indigenous communities impacted by Tahoe's expansion plans in the departments of Santa Rosa and Jalapa, which have a strong opposition to the San Rafael mine operations, a Guatemalan subsidiary of Canada's Tahoe Resources.

"We, Nobel Peace laureates, call upon the United States to re-sign this agreement," added Tawakkol Karman in the municipality of Casillas, 35 kilometers from Guatemala in the southeast of the country.

The agreement sets out measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent further increases in global warming.

 

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