Sunday, November 13, 2016

Trump Looking At 'Quick Ways' To Ditch Paris Climate Accord: Report

US President-elect Donald Trump is considering ways to quickly withdraw from a global agreement to limit climate change, according to a source on his transition team.

Trump has labeled climate change a hoax, defying widening international support for the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The real estate developer has argued that the concept of global warming has been “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”

The president-elect is now looking at how the US can bypass a theoretical four-year procedure for pulling out of the international accord, Reuters reported on Saturday .... http://rinf.com