Business world rounds on Trump over US exit from Paris climate deal
Paris — The business community lashed out at US President Donald Trump’s decision to ditch the Paris climate accord, as two high-profile executives quit the president’s advisory council and Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter for the first time to express disapproval. "Today’s decision is a setback for the environment and for the US’s leadership position in the world," Blankfein wrote. The one-sentence venture into the Twittersphere — by a CEO whose Wall Street firm has the most former employees in the administration — was but a drop in the waterfall of discord about Trump’s decision Thursday. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke to Trump on Tuesday to try talk him out of a withdrawal," but it wasn’t enough", he told employees in a letter obtained by Bloomberg. Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and Tesla founder Elon Musk both withdrew from a presidential jobs panel. And such blue-chip US titans as General Electric, Ford, Dow Chemical and Microsoft were among companies weighing in with their...
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