Unrepentant Trump on the Paris Agreement: “Designed to Kill the American Economy” | WORLD

US President Donald Trump today defended his decision to withdraw his country from the Paris climate agreement, calling it “unfair and discriminatory” despite the fact that his successor, Joe Biden, promised to return to the agreement. .

The United States formally withdrew in early November from the Paris Climate Agreement signed in 2015 by 195 countries, which aims to reduce the temperature rise below 2 degrees and get closer to 1.5 degrees.

“I withdrew the United States from the unfair and discriminatory Paris climate agreement, a very unfair treatment for the United States,” Trump said in a video released on the occasion of the G20 summit led by Saudi Arabia. .

According to APE-MPE, the environment, along with the Covid-19 pandemic, is on the agenda of this two-day summit attended by the world’s largest economies under the presidency of Saudi Arabia.

“The Paris Agreement was not designed to save the environment.” It was designed to kill the American economy, “he said.

“I refuse to give millions of jobs in the United States and send billions of dollars to the worst polluters and environmental transgressors in the world,” insisted the US president, in an unspoken reference to China, his commercial rival.

Donald Trump, who has championed the fossil fuel industry, has challenged the science of climate change and weakened other environmental measures.

The president of the United States, who refused to admit defeat in recent elections, had announced a one-year deadline for the United States to withdraw from the agreement on November 4, 2019. But Joe Baden promised that the United States would rejoin to the agreement. from the first day he will be in the White House in January 2021, an initiative welcomed by European leaders.

Despite progress in the energy transition, the world is still on track to overheating of 3.3 degrees by 2100, according to a report by think tank BloombergNEF, released in late October.