TRUMP NAMES INDIA, CHINA TO DEFEND CLIMATE CHANGE STANCE

US President Donald Trump has once again named India and China to defend his policy on climate change and reiterated that these countries and some others benefited the most from the Paris agreement while America didn’t get any advantage.

“We knocked out the Paris Climate Accord. It would have been a disaster. Would have been a disaster for our country,” Trump said in his address today to the Conservative Political Action Committee.

He was referring to his decision last year to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

On June last year, Trump had announced to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and renegotiate the deal that was agreed upon by over 190 countries during the previous Obama administration.

Arguing that countries like China and India are benefiting the most from the Paris Agreement, Trump had said that the agreement on climate change was unfair to the US, as it badly hit its businesses and jobs.

Defending his decision Trump said, “You know, basically, it said, “You have a lot of oil and gas that we found” -- you know, technology has been amazing. And we found things that we never knew. But we have massive -- just about the top in the world -- we have massive energy reserves. We have coal. We have so much”.

“And basically, they were saying, “Don’t use it. You can’t use it. So what it does is it makes us uncompetitive with other countries. It’s not going to happen, I told them. It’s not going to happen,” he added. PTI

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