By Laurie Goering.

MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States would become “a kind of rogue country” if it pulls out of an international agreement to combat global warming, leaving the world more vulnerable to droughts and other climate extremes, warned Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and human rights advocate.

It is “unconscionable” that the United States would walk away from its climate change commitments, says Mary Robinson.

“It would be a tragedy for the United States and the people of the United States if the U.S. becomes a kind of rogue country, the only country in the world that is somehow not going to go ahead with the Paris Agreement,” Robinson said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Sunday.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, has promised to pull the United States out of that global climate accord, which was agreed last year by 193 countries and which came into effect earlier this month, just in advance of his election.