June 02, 2017

02/06/2017: Sonny Perdue responds to President Trump’s Paris Accord announcement

USDA Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue getting sworn in
 The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), have released the statement of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on President Donald Trump’s Paris Accord Announcement.

 Mr Perdue announced, “President Trump promised that he would put America first and he has rightly determined that the Paris accord was not in the best interests of the United States. In addition to costing our economy trillions of dollars and millions of jobs, the accord also represented a wilful and voluntary ceding of our national sovereignty. The agreement would have had negligible impact on world temperatures, especially since other countries and major world economies were not being held to the same stringent standards as the United States.”

 He continued, “The Earth’s climate has been changing since the planet was formed – on this there is no disagreement. At USDA, we rely on sound science and we remain firmly committed to digging ever deeper into research to develop better methods of agricultural production in that changing climate. Floods, droughts and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future – with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA. To be effective, our research and programmes need to be focuses on finding solutions and providing state-of-the-art technologies to improve management decisions on farm and forest lands.”

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