Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan called on the Irish Government to "change tack".
He said: "We cannot express our disappointment about what the Americans are doing and at the same time continue to let Ireland be a real laggard when it comes to taking climate action.
"We have everything to gain by making the radical leap to a new clean economy. We will continue to attract investment from those thousands of American companies that are now also joining the resistance to what Trump is doing.
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"It is time to work with our European colleagues to introduce diplomatic sanctions against the American administration. It is hard to see how the US can continue to play a leading role in International organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) when they are abandoning the Paris Agreement and the co-operation it entails.
"As Angela Merkel stated last week the American and British administrations can no longer be trusted when it comes to international co-operation. Our response has to be to join those countries who are ramping up their ambition to implement what we have committed to in Paris. Perhaps in a strange way Trump's period in office will prove to be a force that galvanises us into action."
(CD/MH)
