President Trump says US will negotiate to re-enter Paris Climate Accord
Withdrawal 'does not in any way alter the resolve' of water-heating industry
On June 1, President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, an international agreement among nearly 200 parties that “brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.”
“In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or really entirely new transaction in terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden ceremony Thursday afternoon. “So we’re getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair, and if we can’t, that’s fine.”