Breaking News: Trump to yank US out of international climate change accord known as the Paris agreement
By Francesca Chambers
DailyMail.com
31 May 2017
President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the international climate accord known at the Paris Agreement after an intense lobbying effort from conservatives within his party.
European allies had begged Trump not to ditch the pact last week in back-to-back meetings, and the White House said the president was considering their position.
Ultimately, he decided to stick with a campaign promise to pull out of the accord that commits nations to drastically reducing greenhouse gases, Axios is reporting.
Trump said after his trip abroad that he would announce his decision this week.
Axios said Wednesday that he already has – it’s the method of withdraw that’s still being worked out.
The administration is now determining whether to initiate a formal withdraw from the Paris Agreement that could take years or exit the United Nations climate change framework altogether.
US officials insisted that Trump had an ‘open mind’ on the agreement and wanted to hear from world leaders on the topic as he traveled through Europe.
They said he had not made a decision yet and would not until he’d finished his trip.
Republican lawmakers sent Trump a letter while he was away demanding that he follow through on a campaign promise to cancel the United States involvement, tipping the scales, according to Axios.
Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, warned Trump on Wednesday that his actions are likely to have long-lasting repercussions on the US economy and the United States’ standing internationally.
‘I think that our credibility will be undermined,’ he said on CNN.
Other countries like China will fill the gap with green energy jobs and ‘surpass us’ in those industries, he argued on the networks New Day program.
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