Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has lashed out at US President Donald Trump over his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement signed by his predecessor Barack Obama.
In a series of tweets, Mahama blasted Trump’s move, saying it was a sad day for global cooperation.
The Paris deal is an agreement to strengthen the global response to climate change by creating an international network of government bodies, all dedicated to lowering greenhouse emissions.
File photo of John Dramani Mahama, Ghana's former president. /VCG Photo
All countries, excluding Nicaragua and Syria, have signed the agreement, according to which, countries deemed to be the worst polluters in the world would be made to pay for their pollution. The cost is estimated at 150 dollars per ton of carbon emission.
US President Donald Trump announces his decision on the Paris Climate Accords in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. /VCG Photo
In one of the tweets, Mahama said it was "a very sad day for global cooperation."
"The world becomes a truly unpredictable place when such global treaties can be reversed by the electoral decisions of one nation," said Mahama, adding that "the rest of the world will forge on with the Paris Agreement."
"We owe it to our children and future generations. The US has just abdicated its leadership on a matter of critical global importance."
Meanwhile, Trump has said his decision was in the interest of Americans. “I was elected by the citizens of Pittsburgh,” Trump said, “not Paris,” he said in his speech announcing the pullout of the US from the accord.
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