Michael Bloomberg offers to pay $15m that UN stands to lose after Donald Trump quits Paris Agreement

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Michael Bloomberg offers to pay $15m that UN stands to lose after Donald Trump quits Paris Agreement

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Michael Bloomberg offers to pay $15m that UN stands to lose after Donald Trump quits Paris Agreement

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he will personally make up the $15m in funding that the United Nations will lose after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the The US would have been required to contribute that amount towards efforts to prevent catastrophic under the historic agreement between 195 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Americans are not walking away from the Paris climate agreement,” “Just the opposite - we are forging ahead. Mayors, governors, and business leaders from both political parties are ...

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that he can’t immediately yank the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. “That’s not how it works. The Americans can’t just leave the climate protection agreement,” Juncker said Wednesday, . “Mr. Trump believes that ...

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White House officials struggle to answer questions about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord

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Rejecting the Paris Agreement, the United States joins Syria and Nicaragua

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EU leaders have launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump as he prepares to announce his decision to remove the US from the Paris climate accord. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker accused the US President of ignorance, claiming “he doesn’t get close enough to the dossiers to ...

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Russia backs the Paris agreement on climate change as Donald Trump set to announce US decision

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Pittsburgh mayor fires back after Trump invokes Steel City in Paris accord withdrawal

President Trump zeroed in on western Pennsylvania in his announcement Thursday that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” he said in remarks delivered in the White House rose garden. But those in the ...

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Shortly after President Trump appeared in the Rose Garden on Thursday and to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, a pair of White House officials spoke with reporters about the move. They could not answer any of the major questions about the withdrawal, including how Trump ...

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Thursday afternoon, President Trump announced his intention to pull the United States out of the Paris agreement designed to limit emissions and slow dangerous climate change, a move that won't actually be completed until the day after the 2020 election. Also Thursday, Elon Musk announced he'd ...

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Cities across the world protested President Trump’s that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, illuminating buildings in green in solidarity with the 194 nations that remain committed to the climate change accord. (Trump Tower, on New York’s Fifth Avenue, was its usual color.) In ...

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The European Union has added Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its terrorist list in response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters in recent weeks./ "Repression cannot go unanswered," the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said, adding the move will put the IRGC - a major ...

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