President previously criticised Donald Trump’s record on climate change as ‘regressive’
President Higgins said Mr Trump’s re-election comes at a time when Ireland and the United States are celebrating 100 years of diplomacy, and almost one-in-10 people in the US – 32 million in all – can claim Irish heritage.
“In the political sphere, the enduring, bipartisan commitment of the United States to peace on the island of Ireland played a key role in delivering the Good Friday Agreement.” “I believe that achieving peace, ending global hunger and having an effective multilateralism are the central challenges of our time, the solutions for which are so vital now and to which Ireland is committed.In 2019, in advance of a visit by Donald Trump to Ireland, President Michael D Higgins criticised the then US president’s record on climate change as “regressive and pernicious”.
“While the EU has a set of binding emissions targets for 2020 and 2030, we must now plan for full decarbonisation of our European economies by 2050, encouraging the rest of the world to follow suit, and urging in the strongest possible terms the USA to reconsider its regressive and pernicious decision to leave the global Paris Agreement,” he said.
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