"In an unusual essay in the journal Science, President Obama urges his successor to stay in the Paris agreement and continue the clean energy revolution."

"President Obama, writing in the nation's leading science journal, declared that 'the trend toward clean energy is irreversible' regardless of the different policy choices likely to come from his successor.

In an unusual essay by a departing president, Obama urged Donald Trump not to 'step away from Paris,' where the world's nations pledged in 2015 to accelerate the shift to carbon-free energy to slow global warming.

'This does not mean the next Administration needs to follow identical domestic policies to my Administration's,' he wrote in an essay published Monday by the journal Science. 'There are multiple paths and mechanisms by which this country can achieve—efficiently and economically, the targets we embraced in the Paris Agreement.'"

John H. Cushman Jr. reports for InsideClimate News January 9, 2017.

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