Obama condemns Trump for 'rejecting the future' by exiting Paris deal
by Sabrina Siddiqui and Lauren Gambino in Washington from Environment | The Guardian on (#2RHYX)
- Former president had spent years negotiating for landmark climate accord
- Mitch McConnell: 'Trump has put families and jobs ahead of leftwing ideology'
Barack Obama led condemnation of his successor's decision to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate accord, which the former president's administration painstakingly negotiated over the course of several years.
In a statement released just before Donald Trump officially announced that the US would remove itself from the deal, Obama said the administration had joined "a small handful of nations that reject the future". He warned that the more than 190 countries that remain participants will "reap the benefits in jobs and industries created", but he said that US 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."
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