"Disappointed with today’s decision on the Paris Agreement. Climate change is real."
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
The agreement, which was signed by 195 nations in December 2015, aims to slow down the rate at which the planet is warming.
Before today's decision was made, several executives of US companies showed their disapproval of the US pulling out of the agreement. On Wednesday, a letter signed by the executives of major companies, including Facebook, Google, Apple, and Unilever, urged the president not to abandon the agreement.
After Trump announced his decision, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he will be leaving Trump's advisory council. Other executives have taken to Twitter to voice their concern.
Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box
Mark Cuban, owner of NBA's Dallas Mavericks
Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple and former administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
Brent Saunders, CEO of Allergan
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
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