BRUSSELS — Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if US President-elect Donald Trump again pulls the country out of the Paris Agreement, the EU's head of climate change policy has warned.

Trump's transition team has prepared executive orders to withdraw the United States — currently the world's second-biggest polluter, after China — from the main global treaty on climate change, according to sources in the team.

"If that were to happen, that would be a serious blow for international climate diplomacy," EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Reuters in an interview.


EU Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra attends a press conference during the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan Nov 20, 2024. PHOTO: Reuters file


Another US exit from the Paris Agreement would require other countries to "double down on climate diplomacy" in response, he said.

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