France's Fabius says Trump's move on Obama-era climate policies is backward step
Reuters
Published Mar 29, 2017 04:40AM ET
Updated Mar 29, 2017 04:50AM ET
France's Fabius says Trump's move on Obama-era climate policies is backward step
PARIS (Reuters) - Laurent Fabius, the French politician who chaired talks on a landmark, global climate change deal in 2015, on Wednesday denounced moves by U.S. President Donald Trump to undo Obama-era climate change regulations.
"The initial decisions from the new U.S. president's administration concerning the battle against global warming constitute a very serious step backwards," Fabius said in a statement.
Fabius added that such moves were contrary to measures adopted in the December 2015 agreement, known as the COP21 accord.
On Tuesday, Trump signed an order to scrap those Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to fight global warming.
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