03 June, 2017
The move comes a day after Republican President Donald Trump announced he is withdrawing the United States from the agreement, a pact involving almost 200 nations aimed at slowing the warming of the planet.
Less than five months after assuming office, US President Donald J. Trump has fulfilled his ludicrous "election promise" to withdraw his country from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
After President Trump announced that the USA would be withdrawing from the global agreement to fight climate change, the responses were immediate - from denunciation to celebration.
Trump argued that if the USA stayed in the climate agreement, it would put the country "at a permanent disadvantage". "Even though this administration keeps saying that climate action is somehow bad for the economy, most USA companies don't agree with that assessment".
Trump also faced a backlash at home where Democratic state governors, city mayors and powerful companies drew up plans to meet the pact's greenhouse gas emission targets.
Many politicians and other Americans jumped on Twitter after the announcement to cheer on Trump's "America first" emphasis on the economy.
"Pittsburgh and other cities know that fighting climate change will not only save our planet, but save lives", Peduto said in a statement.
Montreal's mayor and Quebec's environment minister are expressing their disappointment at Donald Trump's decision to pull the USA out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. In unusually outspoken remarks, delivering several digs at Mr Trump, she called his decision "extremely regrettable, and that's putting it mildly".
A third reporter tried once more time to corner Pruitt by pointing out that the EPA administrator should probably be able to tell the American people whether the president believes in climate change.
He also pledged to muster $15 million for the United Nations' climate body, substituting for U.S. funding likely to be axed by Trump. With strong words of global leadership to protect our planet in all the main party manifestos, all United Kingdom political parties are set on broadly the right course, at least at a high level. "In November, we will have the responsibility of heading the work of the European Union at the United Nations climate conference, which will definitely be a challenge, but we are ready for it". "We're going to do it because it's the right thing to do". "I think it's a privileged opportunity".
