U.S. withdrawal from Paris climate deal
unlikely to impact emissions
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[June 14, 2017]
LONDON
(Reuters) - The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate
pact is unlikely to have a direct impact on the expected decline in
global carbon emissions, BP's <BP.L> chief economist said on Tuesday. |
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"Nearly all the
improvement in (carbon reduction) comes from the developing
world, it isn't coming from OECD or America," Spencer Dale said
during a presentation of BP's annual Statistical Review of World
Energy.
The reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in recent years
has been a result of cheaper natural gas pushing out more
polluting coal rather than regulations, he said.
(Reporting by Ron Bousso; editing by David Clarke)
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