03 Июня, 2017
"The UK's position on the Paris agreement remains as it always has been", she said.
In an oblique reference to pleas from European leaders at the G-7 summit in Sicily recently that the USA must stay on in the treaty, the President said: "Foreign leaders in Europe, Asia, and across the world should not have more to say with respect to the US economy than our own citizens and their elected representatives". Bill Peduto, the Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh, a city that symbolises the rise and fall of the US coal and steel industries, said the city would proceed with plans made as Paris commitments.
The Times of India called it an "epic rant" with "hyperbolic falsehoods", arguing in a piece by their Washington correspondent that US aid to India is set to be whittled down to $34 million in 2018.
There is a certain irony in the world's biggest source of greenhouse gases rounding on the United States for turning its back on a climate change accord, especially when China's promises under that accord are not particularly ambitious - while us emissions are already falling.
"With the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, it can not pressure other countries, such as the large emerging economies, to do more", said Robert Stavins, director of Harvard University's environmental economics program. While Trump's explanation for exiting the accord was, in part, that it would hurt domestic manufacturing and cost U.S.jobs, CEOs' appeals to the president have been largely business-focused, saying rather that an exit threatens American competitiveness, raises the risk of negative trade implications and could hurt their ability to create jobs.
Trump said he took the decision to protect the interest of American businesses and workers.
"The gravity of this subject is well documented and everyone knows the considerable efforts we have to deliver to be up to this major challenge, and yet, the president of the United States has consciously made a decision to pull out of the deal".
The move has been met with harsh criticism from the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and former President Barack Obama, who used an executive order to push through United States involvement in the deal so he could bypass climate sceptics in Congress.
"The fact that the president in his speech today said that he wants to come back and renegotiate a better deal for the United States and for the world, I think, pretty much speaks for itself", the official said. The decision has no direct impact on major US regulations on power plants and auto rules now aimed at reducing carbon emissions, although those are now under review by Trump as well.
But his decision was criticised by several leaders at home and overseas.
But House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California called it "a stunning abdication of American leadership and a grave threat to our planet's future".
She shrugged off Trump's remark that he was elected to represent the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris.
As for the mechanics of withdrawal, worldwide treaties have a four-year cooling off period from the time they go into effect.
The U.S.is the world's second-largest emitter of carbon, following only China.
"It will be harder for us", Gebru Jember Endalew of Ethiopia, who heads the 48-nation group of the least developed nations at U.N. climate negotiations, said of Trump's decision. "At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?"
