Paris Agreement: Trump confirms US will leave climate accord - BBC News - 0 views
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The US will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, President Trump has confirmed.
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He described the accord as a bad deal and said his pro fossil fuel policies had made the US an energy superpower.
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Mr Trump promised that he’d turn the US into an energy superpower, and he’s attempting to sweep away a raft of pollution legislation to reduce the cost of producing gas, oil and coal.He categorised former US President Barack Obama’s environmental clean-up plans as a war on American energy.
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The Beijing government is having difficulty persuading provincial leaders to abandon coal plants for which they have taken heavy loans.
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China - the current top emitter - and India still have relatively low per capita emissions, but Mr Trump said they shouldn’t be allowed to phase out fossil fuels more slowly than the US.
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Environmentalists say Mr Obama would have acted quickly to press Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro to tackle forest fires in the Amazon
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As extreme weather events alarm the world’s scientists, diplomats will meet in a few weeks in Chile to figure out the path ahead.