Part of the reason, he asserted during a press conference, was because of the Green Climate Fund that Trump says costs the US "billions of billions of billions" of dollars.
The president's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement, which allows individual countries to set their own targets for reducing carbon emissions, has dramatically increased pressure on city, state and private sector leaders to do more to fight global warming within their own domains - beginning a new and complex chapter in the USA fight against climate change. Between the climate-change true believers, other Trump-hating partisan Democrats, and less political Americans who don't know much about the Paris agreement but blindly favor what sounds like a cooperative status quo, you'd expect a majority opposed to withdrawal. Trump alleged that India had made its participation in the accord contingent on receiving foreign aid from developed countries.
Singh, however, expressed hope that the United States will rethink its position on the Paris accord.
More than 1,000 US governors, mayors, businesses, investors, and colleges and universities assembled Monday to reaffirm their commitment to climate action and declare they will continue to pursue ambitious emissions reductions despite the Trump administration's decision to pull out of an unprecedented and essential worldwide agreement to curb climate change.
On Monday, Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj rejected the charge and said India did not sign the Paris climate pact under pressure from any country or for the lure of money. There has been widespread protests in U.S. against President's Trump decision.
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"India signed the Paris agreement because of Indian culture and ethos and not under duress or out of greed (for monetary benefits). The president made an executive agreement because that was the best that we could do", he said.
With the United States virtually isolated on the world stage, a string of administration officials have sought to justify the decision to abandon the 195-nation Paris deal curbing global emissions.
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency who is a well-known climate skeptic, said on Fox News that "the president has indicated that the climate changes. We're supposed to get rid of ours", he stressed. "Think of it: India can double their coal production".
Haley claimed that Trump was aware of climate change.
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