“The president has a responsibility to protect jobs and industry across the country.”Other attendees at the summit condemned the argument. “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit,” said Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and a UN special envoy for cities and climate change. In 2016, the Guardian revealed the company had funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that tackling global warming without CCS will be much more expensive. Not one country has expressed that there is any doubt [about climate action] just because Trump is still a climate denier.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 21:33 UTC