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We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have -- the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth,
Trump claimed
The transition to a low-carbon economy is already underway,
said Ani Dasgupta, president of the World Resources Institute
[R ... R]est assured, our states, cities, businesses, and local institutions stand ready to pick up the baton of US climate leadership and do all they can – despite federal complacency – to continue the shift to a clean energy economy,
said McCarthy, who is now managing co-chair of America Is All In, a coalition of climate-concerned American leaders
Trump is risking the climate stability and safety of the planet as part of a culture war political strategy, heedless of billions who will suffer.”
Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate official who now lectures at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy, speaking at the time of the Biden targets being announced in December last year, said
Sub-national leaders across the US can continue to show the world that US climate leadership is determined by so much more than who sits in the Oval Office.”
At the time the Biden targets were announced in mid-December last year, mindful that Trump would not adhere to them, John Podesta, who was senior adviser for international climate policy, saidHe and his administration do not care about cooperative global action to avert climate catastrophe, and want to recklessly expand fossil fuel production,
he saidIt will be harder this time because we are in the thick of implementation, up against real choices.
As news of America's second withdrawal broke Paul Watkinson, a former climate negotiator and senior policy advisor for France, said
The leadership of the United States is critical in mobilising climate finance, advancing clean energy transitions, and ensuring the equitable implementation of global climate goals,
Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s climate envoy and chair of the African Group of Negotiators, said in a statement
The [Paris Agreement] regime needs to be much better at speaking to the causes,
Guilanpour saidIf you asked which part of the world is being driven by climate, it’s Europe. And Europe has its limitations in how far climate can drive policy — and I think we are bumping into that limit right now,
said George David Banks, who led international climate diplomacy in Trump’s first termIt just removes another impediment to undoing what Biden and the Democratic Congress have wrought,
said Myron Ebell, an outspoken critic of climate science who backed Trump’s first exit.jpg)
When the U.S. steps away from the Paris Agreement a week after entire towns in California are erased it says something,
said Frances Colón, senior director for international climate policy at the liberal Center for American ProgressWe’ve seen decisions becoming more and more difficult to take, not in the least because countries like Saudi Arabia feel increasingly threatened and they don’t really care what the rest of the world thinks of them,
said a Northern European diplomat, who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly
The diplomatic market has priced this in,
R. David Edelman, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, said of the U.S. exit from Paris at an event last week in Washington.jpg)
Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.”
The action drew swift condemnation from world and business leaders, including the celebrity multibillionaire Elon Musk, who tweeted at the timeBy leaving the Paris Agreement, this administration has abdicated its responsibility to protect the American people and our national security,
said Gina McCarthy, a climate adviser under Biden who co-chairs America Is All In, a climate coalitionWe will drill, baby, drill,
Trump said in his inauguration addressThe integrity of the United States’ commitment to this issue would be drawn into question, also (its) reliability as a treaty partner,
Wirth told CNN
When I worked for President Bush, I looked very hard for the magic wand that lowered oil prices right away. It doesn’t exist,
said Bob McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group and a former Bush energy official.jpg)
The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is unfortunate, but multilateral climate action has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country's politics and policies,
said Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a key architect of the Paris Agreement