Christian Aid responds to Trump's withdrawal from Paris Agreement

Trump "knows that it's changing and that the USA has to be responsible for it and that's what we're going to do", she continued, adding that withdrawing from the Paris agreement won't change the country's commitment to curbing climate change.

Trump's move was "a big mistake", said Donald Tusk, one of the European Union's top officials.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he believes the United States will keep reducing greenhouse gas emissions despite pulling out of the Paris climate change pact.

Some of the governors are part of a group that also includes companies, mayors and university presidents that are planning to present a plan to the United Nations that would meet the greenhouse-gas emission targets under the Paris climate agreement that President Trump pulled the USA out of on Thursday, The New York Times reported.

A demonstration is held to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, outside the White House in Washington D.C. June 1, 2017.

"Just because the USA got out of a club doesn't mean we aren't going to care about the environment", she said.

Govs. Charlie Baker and Phil Scott, two of the four Republican governors in New England, announced late Friday afternoon that they would join a coalition of states committed to fulfilling the tenets of the Paris Climate Agreement despite President Donald Trump's decision this week to withdraw from the global pact. Trump argued that the nonbinding agreement imposed "draconian financial and economic burdens on our country" and predicted it would cost Americans millions of jobs and the USA economy trillions of dollars - a stance critics quickly noted did not consider the health benefits from cutting emissions and the potential economic benefits of investments in clean energy. "It is an incredibly important step".

In addition, the leaders of many major U.S. cities, who have dubbed themselves "climate mayors", have joined the alliance. But since becoming president, he has not offered an opinion.

The president of the Federated States of Micronesia, Peter Christian who chairs the Forum, said island countries are now more determined and committed to taking serious action to address climate change and remain steadfast in their obligations under the agreement.

Via Facebook, Gov. Cuomo said, "Withdrawing from the Paris Accord is reckless. A federal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is shortsighted and will be devastating to Americans in the long run". "We will meet our targets", he said.

Hours after Trump's announcement, Pittsburgh's mayor took to the airwaves to highlight the potential for grassroots climate change action by communities across the country.