Trump’s Speech On Paris Climate Agreement Withdrawal, Annotated

“The United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country”.

Instead, the Paris targets became “nationally determined”, which allowed Obama to use his executive powers to adopt the deal on behalf of the United States, upsetting many Republicans who felt the deal should have gone to Congress. We have made tremendous progress.

“This idea that the Paris agreement has a negligible impact on future climate change is certainly not what we conveyed and was not the conclusion of our analysis. We will reach out and reciprocate with nations that seek to achieve that”. “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”.

The fight to mitigate the impacts of climate change will continue in other forms outside the global agreement, they said. We’re actually making tremendous advances.

“The stuff that they’re putting out there is just garbage”.

DiCaprio has always been a champion for the environment, so he’s a good person to follow if you want to stay updated on what you can do to help.

In the last 24 hours we have seen the leaders of China, France and Germany all pledge to continue to combat global warming despite Trump’s decision. 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.

Mr Trump defended his decision by saying that he had “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”. “That’s where our focus has been the last several weeks”.

At their short summit, the European Union and China – two of the world’s major polluters – are set to reaffirm their stance on global warming.

“So hopefully, people can keep it in perspective”, the secretary added.

“I am not a climate change denier”, asserted shovel operator Stacey Moeller, 58.

State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and House Speaker Robert DeLeo, both Democrats, applauded Baker for joining the alliance.

He said Trump’s decision to pull out of the accord has worked as a mobilizing force in some American cities and states, such as California, Washington and NY states.

“They weren’t doing enough and America was carrying the load, so I think by negotiating a better deal, hopefully we can get a better result for our country and the world”. The agreement signed by 195 countries in Paris in December 2015 has been ratified by 147 countries so far.