In a statement issued on June 1, 2017, United States President Donald Trump stated that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, claiming that participation in the agreement would ‘undermine’ the American economy and place the United States ‘at a permanent disadvantage.’
Why did Trump pull the US out of the Paris climate deal?
President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, claiming that the agreement would have resulted in a negligible reduction in global temperatures.Kevin Lamarque is a Reuters photographer.President Donald Trump stated on Thursday that the United States will begin the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Why has the Paris climate deal been delayed?
The complicated provisions that were written into the Paris accord to deal with the prospect that a future president of the United States may elect to remove the country from the pact are to blame for the delay. Previous attempts to put together a global climate change agreement have failed due to internal political divisions in the United States.
