Is the Paris Climate Accord Unfair to the U.S.? Putting Trump's Claims in Context
View on PBS Newshour website"WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Roberton Williams is an economist with Resources For the Future, a nonpartisan group that studied the Paris accord.
ROBERTON WILLIAMS, Senior Fellow, Resources For the Future: What we have modeled in terms of job effects is that it’s much more of a job shift than it is job loss or net job gain, that jobs go away in coal, and you get more jobs in some green jobs, renewable energy, small effects elsewhere. But there is not a big — it is not a big drop."
"WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And Roberton Williams argues that even a minor slowing of global warming can hold off some major destruction.
ROBERTON WILLIAMS: Even small changes in temperature, even small reductions below that what we get without any action, can make a big difference in how much damage there is to the world. So, even tenths of a degree can make a difference of hundreds of billions of dollars."
