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Trump threat to renegotiate U.N. climate deal causes dismay abroad
Source: Reuters
Politics | Wed May 18, 2016 4:36pm EDT
Trump threat to renegotiate U.N. climate deal causes dismay abroad
OSLO/WASHINGTON | BY ALISTER DOYLE AND VALERIE VOLCOVICI
Donald Trump's vow to renegotiate the global accord on climate change if elected U.S. president caused dismay abroad on Wednesday, with supporters of the deal saying it was in his interests to embrace a plan that seeks to end dependence on fossil fuels.
U.S. insistence on renegotiation could unravel a 195-nation compromise to curb greenhouse gas emissions reached in Paris in December after fraught talks between nations as different as China, the United States, small island states and OPEC members.
"The Paris Agreement is as much in the United States’ interests as any other country," said Tony de Brum, ambassador for climate change of the Marshall Islands who, as his country's foreign minister, helped broker the U.N. deal.
"Seeking to unravel it would not only threaten the U.S. economy, damage its environment, and weaken its security, but it would do a great disservice to all of humanity," he said.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told Reuters on Tuesday he was "not a big fan" of the climate accord.
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Trump threat to renegotiate U.N. climate deal causes dismay abroad
OSLO/WASHINGTON | BY ALISTER DOYLE AND VALERIE VOLCOVICI
Donald Trump's vow to renegotiate the global accord on climate change if elected U.S. president caused dismay abroad on Wednesday, with supporters of the deal saying it was in his interests to embrace a plan that seeks to end dependence on fossil fuels.
U.S. insistence on renegotiation could unravel a 195-nation compromise to curb greenhouse gas emissions reached in Paris in December after fraught talks between nations as different as China, the United States, small island states and OPEC members.
"The Paris Agreement is as much in the United States’ interests as any other country," said Tony de Brum, ambassador for climate change of the Marshall Islands who, as his country's foreign minister, helped broker the U.N. deal.
"Seeking to unravel it would not only threaten the U.S. economy, damage its environment, and weaken its security, but it would do a great disservice to all of humanity," he said.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told Reuters on Tuesday he was "not a big fan" of the climate accord.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-reaction-idUSKCN0Y920X
