WASHINGTON—The United States has a better-than-even chance of sticking with a landmark 2015 global agreement on climate change, former US Vice President Al Gore said Friday. “I think that there’s an excellent chance, far better than 50-50, that the United States will decide to stay in the Paris Agreement,” Gore said during a roundtable discussion at this week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Though they are major contributors to US carbon emissions, US energy companies have urged the Trump administration not to exit the Paris Agreement. READ: Trump moves on climate, no word yet on Paris accord | Trump keeps world dangling on Paris climate pact“Solar jobs in the US are now growing 17 times faster than job growth in the economy,” Gore said. Gore said the US was in the early stages of a “sustainability revolution,” with the scale of the Industrial Revolution but the speed of the current digital era.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 22, 2017 03:45 UTC