Australia not giving up on Paris climate agreement despite Trump withdrawal, Bowen says

Australia’s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, is “not giving up” on the Paris climate agreement despite the US president, Donald Trump, moving to pull the world’s second-largest polluter out of the global accord. Bowen made the comments as the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, all but ruled out withdrawing from Paris if he won the federal election in 2025, suggesting such a move would damage trading relationships and cost jobs. Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the agreement within hours of his inauguration on Monday, as he moved swiftly to implement policies to accelerate fossil

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