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Re:Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Pari... by nickik on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:35AM (#14469743)
Why are there any negotiations at all then? If there are any kind of negotiations then you can do it better.
Re:Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Pari... by rbehrends on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:36AM (#14470194)
A primary goal of the Paris Agreement was signaling; the benefit of it was that they got all countries aboard, except Syria (which was in the middle of a civil war) and Nicaragua (which wanted more and voluntarily is doing more).

Trump's decision (assuming it's a rational one and not fed by ignorance) is signaling the reverse: he's telling his supporters that climate change is a myth. And this is why he's getting pushback from other countries.