"I’m here because President Trump is not,” the billionaire philanthropist and 2020 Democratic contender said in Madrid.
MADRID ― Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, made an appearance Tuesday at the United Nations climate summit to assure the world that “Americans are continuing to lead on climate change, even with a climate denier in the White House.”
“Cities account for the majority of the world’s population and the majority of carbon emission, so what mayors do at the city level has a big impact,” Bloomberg said. “And when we work together as part of a global effort, that impact has the power to stop climate change in its tracks.” Bloomberg presented the report to Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, calling it “America’s answer to filling in for what the U.S. government did not want to do.”
Last month, President Donald Trump kicked off the formal process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris pact. No officials from Trump’s White House attended the global climate talks in Madrid.
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