Network Take: Does Climate Deal Pullout Affect National Security?

“We’re getting out,” announced President Donald Trump on Thursday, as he explained why the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. Signatories to the 2015 landmark agreement pledged to flight climate change by reducing greenhouse gases and help poorer countries do the same.

But Trump said the U.S. pullout “represents a reassertion of American sovereignty.” He added, during a Thursday speech in the Rose Garden, that the United States would begin negotiations either to re-enter the Paris accord or to have a new agreement “on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.”

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