The Hartford, Trinity Health and Connecticut’s pension funds are among more than 400 signers of an online-pitch to President-elect Donald Trump to back the Paris Climate Agreement.
Trinity Health is the parent company of Hartford-based St. Francis Hospital. The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Fund is also on the list.
The letter, entitled “Business Backs Low-carbon USA,” is also addressed to Congress, global leaders and outgoing President Barack Obama.
In affirming the effort to combat climate change, the letter states that those signing it “want the US economy to be energy efficient and powered by low-carbon energy…. Failure to build a low-carbon economy puts American prosperity at risk.”
The letter writers target a goal of the agreement, which aims for a limit globally to a temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.
In his campaign and since being elected, Trump has indicated he does not anticipate working toward reversing global warming and in published reports called climate change a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese. On Tuesday, Trump told the New York Times he will “keep an open mind” on the issue.
