Trump aiming for 鈥榪uick way鈥 to exit Paris pact
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DONALD Trump is seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from a global accord to combat climate change, a source on the President-elect’s transition team said. Doing so would defy broad global backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Since Trump’s election victory last Tuesday, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris agreement during climate talks involving 200 nations set to run until Friday in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Trump has called global warming a hoax and during campaigning he promised to quit the Paris Agreement, which was strongly supported by outgoing Democratic US President Barack Obama.
Trump’s advisers are considering ways to bypass a theoretical four-year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump’s transition team for international energy and climate policy.
“It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the (US) election”, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Paris accord won enough backing for entry into force on November 4, four days before the American election.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday in New Zealand that the Obama administration would do everything it could to implement the Paris accord before Trump took office.
The accord states in its Article 28 that any country wanting to pull out after signing on has to wait four years.
In theory, the earliest date for withdrawal would be November 4, 2020, around the time of the next US presidential election.
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