Donald Trump broke off from the Paris climate accord completely disregarding the framework convention’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A crucial and historical resolution has been made by the US President Donald Trump with regards to the latest Paris Agreement controversy. This may not come as a surprise as he continuously reiterates that climate change is a ‘hoax’.
His decision to leave the global pact is apparently the best move for the country to give way to taxpayers and workers. Trump said that the Paris Agreement is “very unfair at the highest level to the US”.
Russia, on the other hand, reinforces the existence of the global climate agreement as they confirmed their support earlier today. “President Vladimir Putin signed this convention when he was in Paris. Russia attaches great significance to it”, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “At the same time, it goes without saying that the effectiveness of this Convention is likely to be reduced without its key participants”, he added.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has quit two of President Trump’s business advisory councils after the president announced he will pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement. “Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the president announced from the Rose Garden that he would begin the process of leaving the accord. Musk had vowed to step down from the advisory councils he sits on if the president pulled out of the pact. “I’ve done all I can to advise directly to POTUS, through others in WH & via councils, that we remain,” he said Wednesday on Twitter. Musk was one of 18 business leaders serving on Trump’s chief business advisory council, known as the Strategic and Policy Forum. He was also an adviser on the president’s manufacturing jobs initiative, and has met with Trump to talk about infrastructure spending.
Disney CEO Bob Iger also announced Thursday that he’s resigning from the Strategic and Policy Forum — bumping the number of high-profile CEO departures up to two. “As a matter of principle, I’ve resigned from the President’s Council over the #ParisAgreement withdrawal,” Iger said on Twitter.
More than 190 countries have united to back the Paris Agreement, a United Nations initiative, back in November 2015 to fight the serious consequences of climate change. Syria and Nicaragua, didn’t commit to the consensus because it fails to put a stop on catastrophic levels of global warming.
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