(CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee released a plan on Wednesday that looks to reimagine American foreign policy to combat climate change.

Inslee squarely targets President Donald Trump's foreign policy with the plan, charging the President with choosing "a cowardly path of ignorance" by "withdrawing America from the global climate community as the world hurtles toward the brink of irreversible climate disaster."

"We must adopt a new, aggressive international climate agenda -- using all tools available in diplomacy, international finance, trade, aid, and assistance," Inslee told CNN. "We need to recommit to Paris with strengthened goals, pledging immediately to cut 50% of our domestic climate pollution by 2030 and taking action to get there. At the same time we must lead a global transition off of fossil fuels, and fundamentally shift American foreign and trade policy to help drive ambitious climate action around the world."

The plan rests on five tenants:

Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, a 195-nation sweeping agreement to combat climate change that Trump opted to leave in 2017, fulfilling a campaign promise.

Studying climate migration, reversing a Trump administration to remove protections for refugees from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua, and pledging to increase the number of refugees resettled by the United States.

Including enforceable climate standards for all new US trade agreements, "including conditioning trade deals on countries' commitment to robust implementation of the Paris Agreement" and increasing barriers for the trade of fossil fuels.

Doubling the US investment in the Global Climate Fund to help the proliferation of green technology.

Working to make substantial cuts to fossil fuel subsidies, and "implementing widespread prohibitions against financing for fossil fuel projects overseas."

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