President Trump will announce his decision on the Paris Accord Thursday

USA allies around the world sounded alarms Wednesday as President Donald Trump seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord.

Almost 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama’s administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.

The decision will put the United States in league with Syria and Nicaragua as the world’s only non-participants in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Polluting industries such as oil and coal are highly automated and are unlikely to embark on a major hiring spree even if the United States dropped out of the Paris agreement, experts say.

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon have backed Trump’s plan to leave the Paris Agreement in the past.

In a previous statement regarding the same proposal, DiNapoli once noted: “ExxonMobil has said it supports the Paris Agreement, but those are empty words unless the company backs them up with action”. “We have got the talent and the will to make this possible in all sectors”. They said the deal would require the United States government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which would hurt business.

And the corporate world has by-and-large come out in favor of the U.S. keeping its seat at the table.

Everyone cautioned that no decision was final until Trump announced it. “Both ways”, he told reporters at the White House.

Paris goes one step further by obliging all nations to set domestic targets to curb emissions to limit a creeping rise in temperatures blamed for more heat waves, downpours and rising sea levels.

But Cohn, Trump’s chief White House economic adviser, told reporters during the trip overseas that the president’s views on climate change were “evolving” following the discussions with European leaders.

For more than a year, Chinese and European Union officials have been working behind the scenes to agree a joint statement on climate change and clean energy.

A White House official says Trump’s expected to withdraw the United States from the landmark agreement. The Pentagon takes it into account in its military planning.

Earlier, America’s worldwide allies and Trump’s domestic opponents lashed out at media reports that the United States could withdraw from the global accord to curb carbon emissions, a move that would make the deal less effective.

But others in the conservative camp think abandoning the pact is a mistake. “This is an agreement that would have cemented President Obama’s climate legacy in place”. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told CNN’s Dana Bash.

Rajoy and Modi agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in the field of combating climate change.

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX had previously defended his decision to remain on the panel of advisers, arguing that it’s better to have a seat at the table than to withdraw altogether and lack a voice on key issues. Throughout, the issue of climate hovered.

After “Climategate”, a controversy regarding stolen emails between climate scientists that were published in 2009, Trump called climate change a “con” during a 2010 appearance on Fox News.

Climate came up later in the trip at the G-7 meeting where the leaders of Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada reaffirmed their commitment to the deal.

President Trump has announced on Twitter Wednesday night that he intends to reveal his decision on the Paris climate agreement on Thursday at 3 p.m.

“This would be yet another example of President Trump’s “Putting America Last” agenda – last in innovation, last in science, and last in worldwide leadership”, Bennet said in a statement.

News of Trump’s expected decision drew swift reaction from the United Nations.

Multiple news outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported that the president plans to make good on a key campaign promise by removing the U.S. from the 2015 agreement aimed at limiting global warming.

“The Paris Agreement will continue with full force of implementation even if the U.S. pulls out”, he added.

She described the discussion as “very hard, not to say very unsatisfactory”. “There are no indications whether the United States will stay in the Paris agreement or not”.

“By remaining in the Paris Agreement, albeit with a much different pledge on emissions, you can help shape a more rational worldwide approach to climate policy.Without US leadership, the failed global policies that have characterized the past 25 years will continue to predominate.Addressing climate concerns need not be a choice between prosperity or environment”.

“The largest outcome is really lost economic opportunity for the United States because this has become a core industry in many countries ironically including in the United States”, said Kammen, “There’s a real way this puts a brake on the clean tech sector, right at a time when the rest of the world is doubling or tripling down on these technologies”. “Now they’re leading the charge on climate change”.