US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement has been met with global condemnation.
He says it’s to ‘protect Americans’, but Ireland’s Environment Minster Denis Naughten says he’s disappointed and concerned, while the French president accused the US of turning its back on the world.
Donald Trump says the deal signed by Barack Obama would make American workers worse off, and the US economy less competitive.
A protest against Trump’s decision will be held outside the American Embassy in Dublin at lunchtime
The Green Party’s Eamon Ryan says Ireland will be directly effected:
But these Americans think their president’s made the right call.