"NBC News" declare : Big Business Urges Trump to Stick With Paris Climate Accord

Related: On Campaign Trail, Trump Pledges to Rip Up Paris Climate Agreement"The time for debate on climate change has passed," Jackson said. President Donald Trump's threats to back out of the Paris climate accord have revealed what is perhaps an unlikely foe: big businesses who may hate uncertainty more than regulation. And over 1,000 companies since November 2016 have reaffirmed addressing climate change through implementing the Paris Agreement by signing the Business Backs Low-Carbon USA statement. "We believe climate change is real," Shell CEO Ben van Beurden told NPR in mid-May. "One of the biggest concerns that I have around climate change is the unpredictability in which governments will go about it."


as declared in Quitting the Paris Agreement, as President Donald Trump is reportedly poised to do this week, will have steep political and economic costs. But by canceling the deal, Trump will make good on a 2016 pledge, appeasing ardent supporters and a small group of donors. "The America-first, nationalistic narrative is satisfied by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, which is a non-binding, cooperative agreement," Majkut said. POOL New / Reuters Ivanka Trump has reportedly pressured her father to stay in the historic Paris climate pact. Tillerson is an authority on climate policy from his nearly four decades at Exxon Mobil, and the company is a top funder of climate science denial.


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U.S. Business Leaders Want to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord

But the key point I want to make here is that the business community does not want to leave the Paris climate agreement. According to reports, President Trump is expected to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. Public statements of support for the Paris agreement have even come in from the CEO of Exxon. With rumors that President Trump will pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, it's worth noting that the business community does not want to leave the agreement. The opening reads, "We are writing to express our strong support for the U.S. remaining in the Paris Climate Agreement." I won't reprint the whole letter here, but please read it.




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