Paris climate pact bad deal for US: Trump administration

The landmark Paris climate pact was a bad deal for the US as it “front-loaded” its costs while India and China “back-loaded” theirs, causing a contraction in the American economy, the Trump administration has said. “What Paris represents is bad deal for this country. We front-loaded our costs. China and India back-loaded theirs. That caused a contraction in our economy,” Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was



quoted as saying by Fox News yesterday.

Pruitt, however, called for continued engagement with the international community on the issue of climate change. “Engagement internationally is very important. To demonstrate the leadership that we have shown on this issue with China and India and other nations is very important. Those discussions should ensue,” he said. He said that China and India have benefited from the Paris Agreement.