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UKIP's energy spokesman, Roger Helmer, has said he is "delighted" with President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.

The accord, negotiated in 2015, commits the US and 187 other countries to adopt measures to tackle global warming, with the aim of limiting rising global temperatures to "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels.

But Mr Helmer told Martha Kearney that if the Paris programme is implemented, it would cost "hundreds of trillions of dollars by the end of the century" and would be a "vast misallocation of resources".

(Image: Paris 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference stickers. Credit: AFP)