Apple, Facebook, Goldman condemn Trump's Paris withdrawal
By Conor Coyle
Date: Friday 02 Jun 2017
(ShareCast News) - A raft of major US tech companies have condemned Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, including Facebook and Google.
Trump pulled out of the agreement to take action to control the earth's rising temperature on Thursday, joining a group of only two countries in the form of Syria and Nicaragua as the only states not to back the deal.
World leaders reacted angrily last week when Trump would not confirm at the G7 summit in Sicily that the US would remain part of the Paris agreement.
Now some of the most influential US companies have weighed into the argument, saying that the White House's decision is one which causes "deep disappointment".
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk followed through with his promise to stand down from two of Trump's business advisory councils if the US were to drop its commitment to Paris.
"Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world," Musk said on Twitter.
A spokesperson for British prime minister Theresa May said that she had called President Trump to express her "disappointment" at the decision.
In a dramatic announcement in Washington on Thursday, Trump said he had to take the US out of the Paris agreement as it was placing an unfair burden on the country's jobs, companies and citizens.
"We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore - and they won't be," he said.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband told the BBC May by not condemning President Trump, May was sending a signal about British leadership and "sending a signal that she is weak and feeble and spineless".
"If ever there was a moment when Britain needed a strong leader, it was now, and it turns out we've got an incredible weak one who is missing in action. I'm afraid that is what people are increasingly thinking about Theresa May."
When it was put to him that May has said she expressed disappointment about Trump's decision, Miliband replied: "Disappointment is when your football team loses a match. It is not when somebody makes a devastating decision like this. America is one of the two largest emitters in the world, along with China. This decision was backed by every country in the world apart from Syria, which is in the middle of a civil war, and Nicaragua, which wanted us to go further. American leadership was so important to this."
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