PARIS, June 8 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced the creation of a web platform "Make Our Planet Great Again" in a bid to bolster efforts to combat deteriorating climate after the United States, one of the world's biggest polluters, said to withdraw Paris deal on climate change.
"This platform aims at helping to mobilize all those wishing to commit themselves to projects, carry on research, take action, seek funding or move to France for the protection of our planet," Macron said in a statement released by his office.
Supported by Business France, a state-run institution, the web was the outcome of civil society efforts, including scientists, teachers, entrepreneurs, associations and NGOs and students "to mobilize and join France to lead the fight against global warm."
The web platform, available in both French and English languages, "provides a single tool that is challenging, practical and action-oriented," the statement added.
Last Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he has decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, a landmark deal to stop global warming.
Agreed by 195 member economies which attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, the accord aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a way to keep the rise in the average temperature no higher than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
