Obama slams Trump's withdrawal from Paris accord, says it opened jobs in US
US President claimed that
the climate deal was unfair
Former US President Barack
Obama and other political leaders on Firday slammed Donald Trump's
decision to withdraw the US from the historic Paris climate deal, saying he has
squandered America's global leadership and put the country with "a small
handful of nations that reject the future."
"The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be
the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created. I believe
the United States of America should be at the front of the pack," Obama
said in rare a statement.
"But even in the absence of American leadership; even as
this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future;
I'm confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even
more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet
we've got," he said.
He said it was the steady, principled American leadership on
the world stage that made the Paris agreement possible. "It was bold
American ambition that encouraged dozens of other nations to set their sights
higher as well," Obama said.
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He did not name Trump, but said that for the nations that
committed themselves to the future, the Paris deal opened the "floodgates
for businesses, scientists, and engineers to unleash high-tech, low-carbon
investment and innovation on an unprecedented scale."
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