The signing by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday 28 March of the executive order undoing his predecessor’s climate strategy and boosting coal extraction was given a very chilly reception by the European Union, which sees this anti-Clean Power Plan offensive as a step backwards that is difficult to reconcile with the Paris Agreement on climate.
Expressing his regret at this decision, Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete refused to give in to pessimism, stating:...