France says will lead renewed effort to fight climate change after Trump announcement

Record ID: 877914

  • Title: France says will lead renewed effort to fight climate change after Trump announcement
  • Date: 2nd June 2017
  • Summary: LE BOURGET, FRANCE (FILE - DECEMBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) FABIUS WALKING IN SUMMIT VENUE FABIUS SIGNING AUTOGRAPH VARIOUS OF POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH SUMMIT DELEGATES
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2017 09:02
  • Keywords: reaction climate Trump Philippe Fabius Hulot
  • Location: PARIS AND LE BOURGET, FRANCE
  • City: PARIS AND LE BOURGET, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Environment,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0066JL4QIV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: France, home of the 2015 Paris climate change accord, will redouble its efforts to limit carbon emissions and pull other signatory countries along with it, Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said on Friday.
    Hulot was speaking hours after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed his plan to pull the world's second biggest carbon emitter out of the deal on the basis that it was bad for the American economy and would weaken its sovereignty.
    Hulot is a well-known French environmentalist who was pulled into the new government of President Emmanuel Macron as a minister when it was formed less than three weeks ago.
    Joining a stream of international criticism of the move, he said talks would immediately get under way about a riposte, including with India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits France this weekend.
    French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe called Trump's decision "calamitous" and reiterated President Emmanuel Macron's statement that there was no plan "B" for the environment.
    The head of the U.N.-sponsored climate summit that negotiated the agreement, Laurent Fabius, also called on the rest of the world's states to pull together.
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