And i make no apologies for it. despite the president s confidence, the clean power plan hasn t gone into effect. more than two dozen states sued to stop it. the supreme court ordered the implementation delayed until the appeals play themselves out. and now, president-elect trump has vowed to rescind it. but what will he do with obama s signature climate achievement, the paris agreement? in december of 2015, in the city of light, 196 nations agreed by consensus to limit the planet s warming to two degrees celsius. that s a threshold many scientists believe will prevent disaster. of course, it took a long time to reach this day. one of the reasons i ran for this office was to make america a leader in this mission. and america is now
Signature climate achievement, the paris agreement? in december of 2015, in the city of light, 196 nations agreed by consensus to limit the planet s warming to two degrees celsius. that s a threshold many scientists believe will prevent disaster. of course, it took a long time to reach this day. one of the reasons i ran for this office was to make america a leader in this mission. and america is now undoubtedly a leader. perhaps the leader on climate change. clean energy is a vast and growing american industry. and more than 100 countries have signed on to the paris agreement which went into legal effect just four days before the 2016 presidential election. if 20, 30, 50 years from now we look back and we say we dealt
Conference, the clean power plan hasn t gone into effect. more than two dozen states sued to stop it, the supreme court ordered the implementation delayed until the appeals play themselves out. and now president-elect trump has vowed to rescind it. but what will he do with obama s signature climate achievement the paris agreement? in december of 2015 in the city of light 196 nations agreed by consensus to limit the planet s warming to two degrees celsius. that s a threshold many scientists believe will prevent disaster. of course it took a long time to reach this day. one of the reasons i ran for this office was to make america a leader in this mission. and america is now undoubtedly a leader, perhaps the leader, on climate change.
Wrong. and we ve taken it really seriously. and i make no apologies for it. despite the president s confidence, the clean power plan hasn t gone into effect. more than two dozen states sued to stop it. the supreme court ordered the plemtation delayed until the appeals play themselves out. and now, president-elect trump has vowed to rescind it. but what will he do with obama s signature climate achievement, the paris agreement? in december of 2015, in the city of light, 196 nations agreed by consensus to limit the planet s warming to two degrees celsius. that s a threshold many scientists believe will prevent disaster. of course, it took a long time to reach this day. one of the reasons i ran for
The united states. those who would argue that any actions i have taken have been contrary to my legal powers are wrong, and we have taken it really seriously and i make no apologies for it. despite the president s confidence, the clean power plan hasn t gone into effect. more than two dozen states sued to stop it. the supreme court ordered the implementation delayed until the appeals play themselves out. and now, president-elect trump has vowed to rescind it. but what will he do with obama s signature climate achievement, the paris agreement? in december of 2015 in the city of light, 196 nations agreed by consensus to limit the