UN environment chief: US will uphold Paris deal
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The head of the UN environment program is predicting that the United States will live up to the Paris climate accord despite President Donald Trump's planned pullout.
UNEP executive director Erik Solheim says that's because "all the big American companies are dedicated to go in the green direction."
Solheim spoke Tuesday via videoconference from Nairobi to Geneva, where UNEP presented a new "Emissions Gap" report that gives a scientific assessment about how national efforts are affecting the greenhouse gas emission trend.
He said the No. 1 question he gets is: "What about Donald Trump?" and his reply is that corporate America is going greener "whatever happens in the White House."
"At the end of the day ... the private sector and business are now driving the agenda," he said.
