Obama criticises Trump in Indonesia speech for withdrawal from Paris climate deal
Source: The Age
Jakarta: Former President Barack Obama, stressing the importance of the Paris climate agreement, criticised President Donald Trump for taking the US out of the deal.
Trump said last month he would withdraw from the agreement and seek to negotiate a better deal.
"In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change," Obama said on Saturday in a speech at the opening of the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta. He said it was "an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership will still give our children a fighting chance."
"The challenges of our times, whether it's economic inequality, changing climate, terrorism, mass migration; these are really challenges and we're going to have to confront them together," he said.
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