Well, we will always have Paris, or will we? I'm James Panicki, the Brussels managing editor here at

Emlex, and over the past day we've been grappling with the fallout from the US government's

decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. That's the UN Climate Accord for the

reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Our senior energy correspondent Laurel Henning covered the nuts and bolts

of the news over the past day or so, but as regular readers and listeners know, Laurel has paved

the way for our coverage over the past few months with some fine analysis of what a US withdrawal

would mean. And it's about more than just climate policy, obviously. There are

geopolitical implications to this decision as well, particularly with China eager to play a larger

role in the international push to greenhouse gas emissions. And Laurel has covered that extensively

in the past as well. So Laurel, here we are again talking about the impact of Donald Trump

on international emissions reduction efforts.

Welcome back.

Thank you, James.

It's all deja vu.

Now, what exactly did Donald Trump announce over the past day?

So in the Rose Garden of the White House, last night for us in Brussels and yesterday afternoon,

for those of you listening in the US, Donald Trump said that he was

pulling the US out of an unfair deal for America, a deal that would hurt US taxpayers,

households, businesses, and a deal that would lead to what he said were 2.7 million job cuts

by 2025.

And so there was a clear national agenda there who said,

I'm doing this for the United States, this is the right thing for the United States,

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