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02 Jun

US Out of Paris Climate Agreement: Trump

Washington – US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his country is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

He said moves to negotiate a new “fair” deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers would begin.

Trump said during last year’s presidential election campaign that he would take the step to help his country’s oil and coal industries.

Opponents say withdrawing from the accord is an abdication of US leadership on a key global challenge.

The Paris agreement commits the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1.5C. Only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign up to the deal.

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