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I'm Jennifer Sabah, and my colleague and co-host is, as always, Anthony Curry. Welcome, Anthony. Hello. So the big

news this week, though, is President Donald Trump's decision about the Paris Accord on climate change.

As we sit in front of our mics, he looks set to take the United States out of the December

2015 agreement.

That sounds like it should be a big blow to attempts to reduce the causes of global warming.

And past efforts, such as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change conference ran into similar problems.

This time around, though, Antony, you argue that the exit may be anti-clamatic, hearty-har-har-ho. So why is that?

Well, I mean, there are several reasons. Firstly, unlike, say, your regular treaty, the countries sign amongst themselves, this

is an accord.

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