Jakarta: Former US President Barack Obama has pointed to the importance of the Paris climate agreement while criticizing Donald Trump for pulling the world’s biggest economy out of the pact. The decision by Trump to walk away from the 2015 agreement was also criticized by business leaders, with some describing it as a setback for the environment. More From Livemint »“In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change,” Obama said Saturday in a speech at the opening of the 4th Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta. We start seeing a rise in sectarian politics, we start seeing a rise in an aggressive kind of nationalism, we start seeing both in developed and developing countries an increased resentment about minority groups and the bad treatment of people who don’t look like us or practice the same faith as us. “We start seeing discrimination against people based on race or ethnicity or religion.

Source: Mint July 01, 2017 12:00 UTC