Here's Why Trump Probably Won’t Ditch The Paris Climate Deal

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April 18, 2017

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"Adding in other policies on limiting emissions that are now dead on arrival, the US is probably on course only to cut its emissions by about 6% by 2025, according to calculations run by Marc Hafstead of Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington DC. 'Really the only way we could get back to 26% would be if states, cities, and businesses were to do all of the work — which seems incredibly unlikely,' Hafstead told BuzzFeed News." "'If you're Goldman Sachs, you might might like to have your home country involved,' Raymond Kopp, a senior fellow with RFF, told BuzzFeed News."

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Marc Hafstead is an RFF fellow and director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative and the Climate Finance and Financial Risk Initiative.

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