World forges ahead with Paris climate deal without Trump

In light of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the USA from the Paris Climate Accord, dozens of governors and mayors across the country are pledging to uphold the green fight within their own borders.

“As 82 mayors representing 39 million Americans, we will adopt, honor and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement”, says the statement on online publishing platform Medium.

In his first tweet, Mr Blankfein said the decision was “a setback for the environment and for the US’ leadership position in the world”.

Barack Obama committed the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 per cent of 2005 levels by 2025.

Several cities said that they would work toward reaching the goal. The accords are not created to include “non-state actors” like local governments and companies.

Jerry Brown (D), and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Thursday announced the formation of a coalition of states supporting the Paris agreement, called the United States Climate Alliance.

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Macron, in a joint news conference with Bloomberg and Hidalgo, said the Paris climate pact is irreversible despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from it.

Malloy said that CT is “a national leader in combatting climate change” and has no intention of slowing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

De Leon introduced a bill that would require California get 100 percent of its retail electricity from renewables by 2045, and it passed the state senate on Wednesday.

“We’re going to do everything America would have done if it had stayed committed”, Bloomberg, a United Nations envoy on climate change, said.

Trump said yesterday (June 1): “Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a 2/10 of one degree – think of that”. The money will fund the UN’s climate secretariat, which will lose money under Trump.

It is clear that whoever takes office in the United Kingdom on the 9th of June will be committed to tackling climate change.

She said: “This decision can’t and won’t stop all those of us who feel obliged to protect the planet”.

Through her involvement with the B Team, a not-for-profit grouping of global business figures committed to the idea that business should be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit, she knew corporate America did not agree with Trump. Trump peddled dozens of wildly disproven falsehoods in justifying exiting the agreement, which prompted swift backlash from the global community, diplomats, Trump’s own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and major U.S. companies like Apple, Microsoft and Intel.

Despite this, European Council president Donald Tusk said the U.S. had made “a big mistake” in backing out of the deal.