US President-elect Donald Trump is considering ways to quickly withdraw from a global agreement to limit climate change, according to a source on his transition team.
Trump has labeled climate change a hoax, defying widening international support for the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The real estate developer has argued that the concept of global warming has been “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”
The president-elect is now looking at how the US can bypass a theoretical four-year procedure for pulling out of the international accord, Reuters reported on Saturday.
Since Trump’s surprise victory in Tuesday’s election, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed their support for the agreement at climate talks running until November 18 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
“It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the election,” the source,…