Doug Jackson (202) 495-3022 or doug.jackson@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said today that President Donald Trump would decide by late May whether to pull out of the universal climate accord reached in Paris. The Paris Climate Agreement was reached by over 190 nations in December 2015, and is an historic, world-wide pact to tackle the climate crisis.
In response, Sierra Club Peoples Climate March Campaign Coordinator Maura Cowley released the following statement:
"The fact that Donald Trump is even considering stripping US leadership out of the broadly popular Paris Climate Agreement just shows how out of touch he is with reality and the rest of the world. Thanks to U.S. leadership, 175 countries signed the historic accord to give us a path to tackle the climate crisis, but now Trump would put us behind China and India in addressing the climate crisis.
"In the meantime, we’d like to thank Trump for giving everyone who cares about climate action another reason to join the Peoples Climate March. A large majority of the public wants climate action and supports the Paris Agreement, and we intend to make that absolutely clear to Trump in the streets of Washington, DC and in marches around the world on April 29th."
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