BAKU, Azerbaijan — One of Donald Trump’s closest international allies has advised him against withdrawing from the Paris global climate pact that America signed in 2015.
Asked whether Israel supported the U.S. president-elect’s plan to leave the Paris Agreement, Israel’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability Gideon Behar said: “The more people that will remain … is better.”
The effort to curtail dangerous global warming was “an international effort,” he added. The Paris deal asks countries to make voluntary cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions. It has been signed by almost every nation on Earth. Only Iran, Libya and Yemen have failed to formally ratify the agreement. Trump has vowed to pull the U.S. out, as he did during his first term.
In an interview on the sidelines of the COP29 talks in Azerbaijan, Behar stressed the U.S. was Israel’s “strongest ally and closest friend” and that relationship would continue “with every president, every party in power.”
