Energy Security and Climate Initiative

[On the U.S. intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate] The problem isn’t really the Chinese moving forward, it’s the U.S. stepping back. We’re opening up a space by abdicating our responsibility.

[On U.S. intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate] Even in places like Europe, you have industry groups worried about competitiveness. [U.S. withdrawal] makes the politics in other countries that much harder.

[On finance and the Paris Agreement on climate change] Developing countries were counting on that aid as a condition of participating.The concern is that they’d become less amenable to working together in the future and the whole machinery gets gummed up.