TRUMP DUMPS PARIS – BUT THE GROWTH OF GREEN ENERGY WILL ROLL ON, ESPECIALLY IN CHINA, SAY EXPERTS
July 1st, 2017
Donald Trump's decision to pull the USA out of the Paris Climate Treaty has been universally viewed as a setback for moves to decarbonise the world electricity sector. Trump called for a new "fair" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers and claimed that China and India had "no meaningful obligations" placed on them by the deal.
Yet the European Union (EU) and China - two of the world's other major energy blocks - immediately moved to restate their commitment to the Paris deal agreed in December 2015. And, it seems, the US decision may prove ...
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