BONN, Germany (REUTERS) — Germany, Japan and other US allies are unlikely ever to persuade President Donald Trump to drop his plan to quit the Paris climate agreement, former US vice president Al Gore predicted on Saturday (Nov 11)..
BONN, Germany (REUTERS) — Germany, Japan and other US allies are unlikely ever to persuade President Donald Trump to drop his plan to quit the Paris climate agreement, former US vice president Al Gore predicted on Saturday (Nov 11).
Gore, speaking on the sidelines of a 200-nation meeting on global warming in Germany, dismissed Trump’s stated willingness to re-engage in the 2015 pact if he won better terms for US taxpayers and businesses as a «smokescreen».
«It’s a classic political effort to have things both ways. He’s made his decision but he wants to give the other side a faint hope that… that he might yet change his mind,» he told Reuters.
«It’s pointless for me to continue trying to persuade him to change his mind,» he said.
«Can somebody else? (German) Chancellor Angela Merkel? (Japanese) Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe? Somebody else? I don’t know. I doubt it.»
Gore, who served as vice-president for Democratic President Bill Clinton, won a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and his film, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary on climate change, won an Academy Award.
