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If realised, President Trump’s actions would sacrifice the United States’ competitiveness globally, raise energy prices for American families, and pollute our air. Pledging to roll back climate policies that have created more than 400,000 good paying American jobs will only hurt workers and our economy,
Weyl said in a statement
For this new, very ambitious target for 2035, we’re not on track — and we are likely to be further off track under a Trump administration,
said Kate Larsen, who leads Rhodium’s international energy and climate research
President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord,
the White House said in a statement
It simply makes no sense for the US to voluntarily give up political influence and pass up opportunities to shape the exploding green energy market. Sitting on the sidelines also means the United States will have fewer levers to hold other major economies accountable for living up to their commitments.”
Meanwhile, President and CEO of World Resources Institute Ani Dasgupta saidThe leadership of the US is critical in mobilizing climate finance, advancing clean energy transitions, and ensuring the equitable implementation of global climate goals. Equally important is the need to promote multilateralism as the foundation for addressing climate change and other global challenges. The African Group underscores its belief that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other international platforms remain the most effective avenues for fostering collaboration and accountability.”
Ali Mohamed, chair of the African negotiating team and Kenya's special envoy for climate change said that.jpg)
The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is unfortunate, but multilateral climate action has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country's politics and policies,
said Laurence Tubiana, a key architect of the accord
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will 'Drill, baby, drill!'
Trump saidThere is no energy emergency. There is a climate emergency,
said Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense CouncilThe US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,
Trump said
The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening. The terrible wildfires in Los Angeles are the latest reminder that Americans, like everyone else, are affected by worsening climate change,
Tubiana said
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Clearly America is not going to play the commanding role in helping solve the climate crisis, the greatest dilemma humans have ever encountered,
said climate activist and writer Bill McKibbenIgnoring it only sends all that vast wealth to competitor economies, while climate disasters like droughts, wildfires and superstorms keep getting worse,
Stiell said
I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accords."
As he signed a series of executive actions following his inauguration, Mr. Trump saidPulling out of the Paris Agreement is a travesty,
Rachel Cleetus, the policy director of the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an email statement
As the world’s most powerful nation and its largest historic emitter, we have a duty to lead the world by example in reducing emissions,
said Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra ClubThe United States will consider its withdrawal from the Agreement and any attendant obligations to be effective immediately upon this provision of notification,
the order addedWe have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have -- the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth,
Trump claimed
I'm revoking nearly 80 destructive radical executive actions of the previous administration,
Trump told the crowd at the signing ceremonyThe door remains open to the Paris Agreement, and we welcome constructive engagement from any and all countries,
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said in a statement, insisting the clean energy transition was an opportunity for economic growth
There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes,
Mulino said