Moniz dismisses Trump’s call to change climate deal
Moniz dismissed presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s call to renegotiate or ignore the Paris climate deal, saying at a Politico event Wednesday that “that’s a hypothetical that I don’t expect to come.”
“Clearly, we have essentially every country in the world having made [contributions] and are moving forward with that,” he said.
“But I remind you that there is, within the agreement, a mechanism for revisiting, in the sense of five-year revisits, with the idea that countries, hopefully, as costs go down for technologies, will be having greater ambition going forward as we meet increasingly stringent targets for the years and decades ahead.”
The United States, under the Obama administration, has vowed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.