布隆伯格向聯合國捐款450萬美元減緩全球氣變

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday he is giving $4.5 million to the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat to cover a U.S. government funding gap for the international Paris climate accord.

Bloomberg's charitable foundation said the money will support work developing countries are doing to achieve their targets under the agreement as well as "promoting climate action" among cities and businesses.

The 2015 treaty signed by more than 200 nations and entities vowed to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in order to try to limit global temperature rise.

Former President Barack Obama's administration was among the signatories, but President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the agreement. Trump campaigned as a booster of fossil fuels and a skeptic of climate change science, and said the Paris accord would cause U.S. businesses to lose millions of jobs.

Bloomberg made a similar payment last year and pledged to continue the contributions. He told CBS News in an interview broadcast Sunday that Trump is capable of changing his position.

The United States is among the world's top emitters of carbon dioxide.前紐約市長布隆伯格星期天宣佈，他將向《聯合國氣候變化框架公約》祕書處捐款450萬美元，彌補美國退出巴黎協定而導致的資金缺口。

布隆伯格的慈善基金會說，這筆錢將用於支持發展中國家努力實現巴黎協定規定的目標，以及促進世界各國城市及企業針對氣變採取行動。

200多個國家和組織2015年簽署的巴黎協定爭取減少二氧化碳以及其它溫室氣體的排放，以阻止地球氣溫繼續升高。

前美國總統奧巴馬的政府在巴黎協定上籤了字，但是川普總統宣佈退出這一協定。川普主張更多使用礦物燃料，並質疑全球氣候變化的科學性。他說，巴黎協定將導致美國公司丟失數以百萬記的工作。

布隆伯格去年曾向聯合國做了類似的捐款，並保證將繼續捐贈。他星期天在接受美國哥倫比亞廣播公司的電視採訪時說，川普總統有能力改變他的立場。

美國是世界上碳排放最多的國家之一。