05 June, 2017
The European Commission, the EU executive, described the US pullout from the pact to fight the dangers of global warming and signed by more than 190 countries, as a sad day for the global community, but said it would seek new alliances.
"As mayor of the City of Greensboro, I fully support the Mayor's National Climate Action Agenda", Vaughan stated in the release.
China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.
Vaughan joins other mayors from cities such as New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The former mayor of New York City, who is also the United Nations secretary general's special envoy for cities and climate change, didn't specify what partners will assist in the effort.
He did not answer definitively, but said he would "do everything I can to ensure that any threat is actually dealt with earlier on by negotiations and by talks". Indeed, leading military experts, including Secretary of Defense James Mattis, have warned that the impact of climate change will lead to more refugee flows, more starvation, more conflict, and more terrorism.
"I'm supportive of efforts to fight climate change and I'm supportive of the Paris accord", McNally said.
"We need this Paris agreement in order to preserve humanity".
The announcement was made by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg's charitable organization, on Thursday, the same day President Trump made his long-awaited decision to pull out of the 2015 agreement.
"Our mission has always been to leave the world better than we found it", he wrote.
Plank states: "Sustainability has always been part of our DNA: It's integral to how we live and work and is essential to our environment". Some of the mayors and leaders in those states have spoken out against the decision. He said the deal "disadvantages the U.S.to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production".
The Trump supporters included Vince Harrison, 56, a burly retired firefighter from Washington, who said it was his first rally ever.
"We just have to show consistent leadership and can't be "willy nilly" entering and exiting agreements", Stanton said.
In his confirmation hearing in January, Tillerson said he thought it was "important that the United States maintain its seat at the table" on the issue of climate change, adding, "No one country is going to solve this alone".
