Gerhard Schroeder
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/donald-trump.htm" id="ramplink_Donald Trump" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" webkit-tap-highlight-color="webkit-tap-highlight-color" rgba="rgba" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" outline="outline" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" border-top="border-top" border-right="border-right" border-bottom="border-bottom" dotted="dotted" border-left="border-left" border-image="border-image" initial="initial" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Trump</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">'s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement this afternoon wasn't the first time an American president has dumped a global climate deal.</span></div><p id="ramplink_Kyoto Protocol" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 24px 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><b>In March 2001, shortly after taking office, President George W. Bush announced the U.S. would not implement the 1997 <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/kyoto-protocol.htm" id="ramplink_Kyoto Protocol" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">Kyoto Protocol</a>. The Protocol -- an agreement brokered by former Vice President <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/al-gore.htm" id="ramplink_Al Gore" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">Al Gore</a> and signed by former President <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/bill-clinton.htm" id="ramplink_Bill Clinton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">Bill Clinton</a> later ratified by 140 countries</b> -- was aimed at curbing <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/greenhouse-gases.htm" id="ramplink_greenhouse gas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">greenhouse gas</a> emissions and countering <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/climate-change.htm" id="ramplink_global warming" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">global warming</a>.</p><div data-box-type="fitt-adbox-incontentTeads" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><p id="ramplink_Paris agreement" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bush’s reasons for withdrawing from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol were similar to those offered by the Trump administration on the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/energy/paris-agreement-climate-change.htm" id="ramplink_Paris agreement" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">Paris agreement</a>. He was concerned that the deal would hurt the U.S. economy, lead to higher <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/energy/energy-prices.htm" id="ramplink_energy prices" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">energy prices</a> and invite other countries to take advantage of an agreement with little enforcement capabilities.</span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bush, like Trump, was also a climate change skeptic.</span></p><p id="ramplink_presidential campaign" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The Kyoto Treaty would affect our economy in a negative way,” Bush said during his 2000 <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/elections/presidential-election.htm" id="ramplink_presidential campaign" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 45, 108); outline: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; cursor: pointer; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 45, 108); border-left: none; border-image: initial; padding-bottom: 2px;">presidential campaign</a>. “We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it.”</span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Bush’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Kyoto Protocol received blowback from environmental groups as well as vocal criticism from then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.</b></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Global temperatures have risen since then, while other major powers like China, Japan and Russia also declined to accept commitments to the Protocol.</span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" scroll-margin-top="scroll-margin-top" style="margin: 24px 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated, sea levels have risen more than 2-1/2 inches on average, and the number of weather disasters worldwide has risen by 42 percent according to the Associated Press.</span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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