Economics
Trump's Paris Exit Sidelines D.C. for Danish Wind Energy
- Danish energy minister says American states will ignore Trump
- China is next stop on minister’s list for green energy talks
What the U.S. Departure Means for the Paris Agreement
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For Denmark, which relies more on wind energy than any other nation on the planet, Thursday last week was a pretty bad day.
The country’s energy minister, Lars Chr. Lilleholt, watched in dismay as U.S. President Donald Trump extracted the world’s biggest economy from the Paris accord, ignoring decades of science-based work that had guided political efforts to protect the globe from climate change. But Lilleholt says the move also ignored the sound economics of renewable energy, and if the White House isn’t listening, he’s ready to take his message elsewhere.