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Christiana Figueres: US Business Would Not Tolerate A Trump-Led Exit From Paris Agreement

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Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump's threats that he would 'cancel' the Paris Agreement may have sparked concern among environmentalists worldwide, but it seems Christiana Figueres, the UN's chief climate change diplomat, is not overly worried by the real estate mogul's threats.

In one of her final interviews as head of the UN Secretariat on climate change before she steps down from her post in July, Figueres told BusinessGreen US business leaders would oppose any attempt by Trump to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, because the low carbon economy represents such an important business opportunity.

"I just don't think that US business would allow that, because US business has seen that this is actually a very, very interesting opportunity for US technologies and US skills, technical and otherwise, to be invested in and to be used around the world," she said. "And there is so much to be gained here by the United States but also by other countries, that it would shoot US business in the foot to remove itself from a process that is now an unstoppable global process."


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