Trump pulls US from UN’s ‘premier’ agreement on climate change in sweeping order

The Washington Examiner cited CEI’s expert on economic prosperity

“Affordable and reliable energy is vital to growth and prosperity, as is removing harmful governmental policies that increase energy poverty,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s director of energy and environment, Daren Bakst, said.

“Unfortunately, misguided global climate policies, launched with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change … make our most important and abundant sources of energy more expensive. They also fail to properly account for the harm associated with reducing economic prosperity and human flourishing,” he added. “In recent years, efforts to eliminate the use of fossil fuels – our most affordable and reliable energy sources – have been gaining traction at the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. This is just a sample of how extreme things have become.”

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