The Ramifications Of Leaving The Paris Climate Agreement

Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump’s decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming.
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina. Paolo Santalucia / AP Photo
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump’s decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming.
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina. Paolo Santalucia / AP Photo

The Ramifications Of Leaving The Paris Climate Agreement

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President Donald Trump will announce Thursday whether the U.S. will remain part of the Paris Climate Agreement.

We’ll talk about the ramifications of leaving COP21 with Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He was an adviser to the Danish government and attended the Paris talks and has attended 20 of the last 21 U.N. climate conferences.