These are the white houses talking points on why we pulled out
Paris Accord – TALKERS
Topline: The Paris Accord is a BAD deal for Americans, and the President’s action today is
keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first. The Accord was negotiated poorly
by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation. It frontloads costs on the American
people to the detriment of our economy and job growth while extracting meaningless
commitments from the world’s top global emitters, like China. The U.S. is already leading the
world in energy production and doesn’t need a bad deal that will harm American workers.
UNDERMINES U.S. Competitiveness and Jobs
According to a study by NERA Consulting, meeting the Obama Administration’s
requirements in the Paris Accord would cost the U.S. economy nearly $3 trillion over
the next several decades.
By 2040, our economy would lose 6.5 million industrial sector jobs – including 3.1
million manufacturing sector jobs
It would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third
of our electric power
The deal was negotiated BADLY, and extracts meaningless commitments from the
world’s top polluters
The Obama-negotiated Accord imposes unrealistic targets on the U.S. for reducing our
carbon emissions, while giving countries like China a free pass for years to come.
Under the Accord, China will actually increase emissions until 2030
The U.S. is ALREADY a Clean Energy and Oil & Gas Energy Leader; we can reduce
our emissions and continue to produce American energy without the Paris Accord
America has already reduced its carbon-dioxide emissions dramatically.
Since 2006, CO2 emissions have declined by 12 percent, and are expected to continue to
decline.
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. is the leader in oil
& gas production.
The agreement funds a UN Climate Slush Fund underwritten by American taxpayers
President Obama committed $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund - which is about 30
percent of the initial funding – without authorization from Congress
With $20 trillion in debt, the U.S. taxpayers should not be paying to subsidize other
countries’ energy needs.
