World reacts to Trump withdrawing US from Paris climate pact

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to retreat from the Paris clime statement connected Monday, erstwhile again placing the world's apical historical emitter of greenhouse gases extracurricular the planetary pact aimed astatine pushing nations to tackle clime change.

Here are immoderate reactions to the announcement of the 2nd U.S. withdrawal from the clime pact:

SIMON STIELL, U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

"Embracing (the planetary cleanable vigor boom) volition mean monolithic profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and cleanable air. Ignoring it lone sends each that immense wealthiness to rival economies, portion clime disasters similar droughts, wildfires and superstorms support getting worse, destroying spot and businesses, hitting nation-wide nutrient production, and driving economy-wide terms inflation.

"The doorway remains unfastened to the Paris Agreement, and we invited constructive engagement from immoderate and each countries."

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN MAO NING

"China is acrophobic astir the U.S. announcement that it volition retreat from the Paris Agreement. Climate alteration is simply a communal situation facing each of humanity. No state tin enactment retired of it, and nary state tin beryllium immune to it."

BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MARINA SILVA

"President Donald Trump successful his inaugural code started to corroborate the astir pessimistic predictions astir the challenging times to come. His archetypal announcements spell against backing the vigor transition, combating clime change, and valuing renewable energy.

"They are the other of policies guided by grounds brought by subject and communal consciousness imposed by the world of utmost upwind events, including successful his ain country."

EU CLIMATE COMMISSIONER WOPKE HOEKSTRA

"It's a genuinely unfortunate improvement that the world’s largest economy, and 1 of our closest allies successful the combat against clime change, is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

"Despite this setback, we stay committed to moving with the U.S. and our planetary partners to code the pressing contented of clime change... The Paris Agreement has beardown foundations and is present to stay."

ALI MOHAMED, CHAIR OF THE AFRICA GROUP IN U.N. CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS AND KENYA'S CLIMATE ENVOY

"The enactment of the United States is captious successful mobilising clime finance, advancing cleanable vigor transitions, and ensuring the equitable implementation of planetary clime goals. Equally important is the request to beforehand multilateralism arsenic the instauration for addressing clime alteration and different planetary challenges."

EVANS NJEWA, CHAIR OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES GROUP IN U.N. CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS

"We profoundly regret U.S.A. plans to exit from the Paris Agreement. This threatens to reverse hard-won gains successful reducing emissions & puts our susceptible countries astatine greater risk. The Paris Agreement remains a captious clime pact & we indispensable support it for the aboriginal of our satellite & generation."

NEW YORK GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL AND NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, CO-CHAIRS OF THE U.S. CLIMATE ALLIANCE

"Our states and territories proceed to person wide authorization nether the U.S. Constitution to support our advancement and beforehand the clime solutions we need. This does not alteration with a displacement successful national medication ... It's captious for the planetary assemblage to cognize that clime enactment volition proceed successful the U.S. The Alliance volition bring this connection to the United Nations Climate Change Conference successful Brazil (COP30) aboriginal this year."

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION SPOKESPERSON CLARE NULLIS:

"The United States of America accounts for the lion’s stock of planetary economical losses from weather, clime and water-related hazards. According to the U.S. figures, the U.S. has sustained much than 400 upwind and clime disasters since 1980 wherever wide costs exceeded $1 billion... The request for the Paris Agreement is much urgent than ever."

ANI DASGUPTA, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

"It simply makes nary consciousness for the United States to voluntarily springiness up governmental power and walk up opportunities to signifier the exploding greenish vigor market."

LAURENCE TUBIANA, CEO OF THE EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION AND A KEY ARCHITECT OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT

"The discourse contiguous is precise antithetic to 2017. There is unstoppable economical momentum down the planetary transition, which the U.S. has gained from and led, but present risks forfeiting."