Trump’s backward move on climate change disadvantages U.S.

Trump is closing off his country and making the U.S. a less attractive destination for innovation and investment.

U.S. President Donald Trump, centre, at the recent NATO summit in Brussels. By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, he seems determined to take his country backwards, writes Sheila Copps.Photograph courtesy of NATO

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

June 5, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump just hammered another nail in the American coffin. In his petulant conversations about pulling out of the global climate change consensus, he is labouring under the misimpression that his withdrawal would influence the agreement. Instead, he is reinforcing the impressio...

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