Trump announces decision to withdraw US from climate accord

S. will withdraw from the Paris global climate pact.

That said, the White House could easily have stayed in the Paris accord even as it opted not to pay into the climate fund or impose emissions cuts. If we can’t, that’s fine, ‘ Trump said.

After Trump’s announcement, business leaders, politicians, and foreign heads-of-state began castigating the decision as a woeful abandonment of U.S. leadership.

The U.S.is joining Syria and Nicaragua as the only two countries that are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change who are not parties to Paris.

Trump’s decision to abandon the pact signed by his predecessor Barack Obama has everyone hopping mad, but more importantly is also prompting some experts to explain the basics of worldwide treaties and accords to the controversial American leader. “Pittsburgh stands with the world & will follow Paris Agreement”, he tweeted.

The Paris Agreement is a deal reached between 195 countries to gradually reduce emissions that cause climate change in order to prevent a major increase in the global temperatures that could raise sea levels, spark major droughts, and lead to more risky storms.

“The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created”, Obama said.

United States has stopped being the leader of the free world.

“The president has listened to people from all sides and ultimately he’s going to make the best decision for. the American worker”, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. “Russian Federation attaches great significance to it”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a call with reporters, the Independent reported.

Trump said the deal “disadvantages” the United States and was causing lost jobs and lower wages.

Putin is meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi later on Thursday.

“We can all agree that all people should be able to breathe clean air and live in a safe and healthy environment”, said Sen. The world can continue to count on Europe for global leadership in the fight against climate change. Trump’s withdrawal, once finalized, would mean the US will join only two other countries that do not support the agreement: Nicaragua and Syria. He promised to back out of the agreement as a candidate, but White House advisors recently suggested that his views on climate change were evolving.

In an interview on Thursday, the president of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton, told Reuters that he had mixed feelings about Trump’s announcement, adding he was eager to see a US policy that actively promotes a place for coal in the global energy mix.

While not mentioning the U.S.by name, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tells reporters climate change is a “global challenge” that no country can ignore.

“We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won’t be, they won’t be”.

The U.S. public is generally hostile to the idea of exiting an accord that committed its signatories to curbing carbon emissions, but it is largely Democrats who are opposed to backing out more than Republicans.

President Trump announced Thursday that he will pull the US out of the Paris climate deal, despite concerns from top CEOs and global leaders. Exxon CEO Darren Woods wrote Trump a personal letter earlier this month asking him to remain in the pact, saying it ensures the U.S.is “well positioned to compete”.

By abandoning the world’s chief effort to slow the tide of planetary warming, Trump was fulfilling a top campaign pledge.

White House aides were divided on the topic and had been deliberating on “caveats in the language” as late as Wednesday, one official said.

Given @POTUS irresponsible decision on #ParisAccord, all the more important that leaders like @JerryBrownGov in California keep pressing on.

“President Trump has betrayed the world and the trust of almost 200 nations with this reprehensible and destructive decision”, Greenpeace campaigner Nikola Casule told AAP.