Donald Trump Donald Trump says he might sign back up to a revamped Paris accord US president says he would consider signing a ‘completely different’ climate deal – while wrongly suggesting polar ice has not been receding Donald Trump said ice caps were supposed to melt, but now they are ‘setting records’ Photograph: Matt Cardy/PAPresident Donald Trump would be willing to sign the US back up to the Paris climate accord, but only if the treaty undergoes major change, he has said in comments published on Sunday. Trump was met with global condemnation when he announced in June 2017 that the United States was pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, painting it a “bad deal” for the US economy. “The Paris accord, for us, would have been a disaster,” he told Britain’s ITV channel in an interviewed to be aired late on Sunday in the UK. “If somebody said, go back into the Paris accord, it would have to be a completely different deal because we had a horrible deal,” Trump said, according to extracts of the interview. Earlier this month Trump said the US could “conceivably” return to the deal under more favourable terms, raising questions about whether he was bluffing about pulling out of the Paris deal in a bid for easier emissions targets.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2018 01:30 UTC