Donald Trump's climate claims on China, India false, says fact check site
4 Jun 2017 2:45 AM IST
US President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that the Paris Agreement would leave India and China unchecked.
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US President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that the Paris Agreement would leave India and China unchecked on building coal-fired power plants, an American web-based fact checking media outlet has said.
Lori Robertson, managing editor of FactCheck.org which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centre, said there was nothing in the Paris agreement that stipulates which countries can and cannot buildcoal plants. “Mr Trump wrongly claimed the Paris Agreement would allow India to ‘double its coal production by 2020’ but the US ‘can’t build the plants’,” said Robertson.
( Source : PTI )
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