04 June, 2017
The White House reaction comes a day after Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and said the USA would renegotiate.
"Americans will honor and fulfill the Paris Agreement by leading from the bottom up - and there isn't anything Washington can do to stop us", Bloomberg said.
"As of today (Friday), the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord", Trump said in an address at the White House. The mayors are pushing for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celcius target and a clean energy economy.
Former President Barack Obama spoke out about his strong belief in the power of other nation's leaders to combat climate change, and Mayor Bill de Blasio is standing with the former president.
Long before he was president, Mr Trump called global warming "an expensive hoax".
"There's enough to deal with with respect to the Paris Agreement and making an informed decision about this important issue".
Ford spokeswoman Christin Baker said on Thursday the No.2 U.S. automaker believes "climate change is real, and remain deeply committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in our vehicles and our facilities".
For their part, Tusk and Juncker said at the press conference that the European Union and China had serious discussions over Article 15 and other issues of common concern during the leaders' meeting, and have expanded consensus and narrowed differences.
"The president believes in a clean environment, clean air, clean water".
"It is actually hard to know the deep convictions of the president on the subject". Mr Zinke later added that he had not asked Mr Trump about his thoughts on the topic.
Although he wouldn't speak for President Trump, Pruitt did share his own opinions on climate change.
U.S. payments to the UN Green Climate Fund, which helps developing countries cope with the effects of climate change, will stop. Which marks a big change in recent years, and particularly since he became President.
Often the president has pointed to cold weather as evidence the climate scientists are wrong. "India had no obligations until Dollars 2.5 trillion of aid was provided", Scott Pruitt, administrator of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told reporters at a White House news conference. He bemoaned the fact that the United States was investing money and doing things "to solve a problem that I don't think in any major fashion exists".
Germany's DIHK Chambers of Commerce and VDMA engineering industry group warned that USA companies could gain short-term advantages by Trump's decision.
"I think there's a change in weather. I'm not a great believer", he told The Washington Post. "Climate change is a challenge that requires a broader, whole-of-government response", Mattis said during his Senate confirmation hearing in March.
And each time, they didn't get the answer they were looking for.
"I have an open mind to it".
Rice called Trump's decision the "coup de grâce" for America's status as a global leader, and added that it jeopardized U.S. alliances by isolating the country from the rest of the developed world.
He went on to say that he thought "there is some connectivity" between human activity and the changing climate, but that, "It depends on how much".
It was unclear whether Ford Motor's new chief executive, James Hackett, would join Trump's panel.
