Trump pulls US out of global climate change accord

President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change.

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Source: AAP

"I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve America's interests," the president declared in an address in the White House Rose Garden watched anxiously by leaders around the world.

"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," he said.

"As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country," Trump said.

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