{"id":324828,"date":"2017-06-02T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324828"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:15:31","slug":"paris-climate-deal-dismay-as-trump-signals-exit-from-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/paris-climate-deal-dismay-as-trump-signals-exit-from-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris climate deal: Dismay as Trump signals exit from accord"},"content":{"rendered":"
There has been widespread international condemnation of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the move “extremely regrettable” and said nothing would stop those who supported the accord.<\/p>\n
But Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would “not judge” Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump said he was prepared to discuss a new deal but key signatories to the accord quickly ruled that out.<\/p>\n
He said the deal “punished” the US and would cost millions of American jobs. “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” he quipped.<\/p>\n
The Paris agreement commits the US and 195 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1.5C.<\/p>\n
The UN World Meteorological Organisation said on Friday that, in the worst scenario, the US pullout could add 0.3C to global temperatures by the end of the century.<\/p>\n
Why is Trump pulling out?<\/strong><\/p>\n