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Trump’s Paris decision a ‘grab-bag of disconnected reasons’

"It comes across like someone complaining they have a ‘bad deal' having to do their share of the washing up after the sumptuous feast they have enjoyed," SBN chief executive Rachel Brown

Nathan Smith
Fri, 09 Jun 2017

Incomprehensible and disappointing.

Those are the (printable) reactions used by business observers who watched the US depart from the Paris Agreement on climate change last week.

The agreement was a legally binding framework and entirely voluntary, but the near universality of adoption was a

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Nathan Smith
Fri, 09 Jun 2017
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