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This Article is From Mar 29, 2017

Climate Deal 2015 Chairman Terms Donald Trump Step On Climate Deal 'Backward'

Climate Deal 2015 Chairman Terms Donald Trump Step On Climate Deal 'Backward'
Laurent Fabius, the French politician who chaired talks on a landmark, global climate change deal.
Paris: Laurent Fabius, the French politician who chaired talks on a landmark, global climate change deal in 2015, on Wednesday denounced moves by US President Donald Trump to undo Obama-era climate change regulations.

"The initial decisions from the new US president's administration concerning the battle against global warming constitute a very serious step backwards," Fabius said in a statement.

Fabius added that such moves were contrary to measures adopted in the December 2015 agreement, known as the COP21 accord.

On Tuesday, Trump signed an order to scrap those Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question US support for an international deal to fight global warming.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Editing by Richard Balmforth)
© Thomson Reuters 2017


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