In his interview with The Times, Trump did not rule out the possibility of man-made climate change, unlike in the past when he dismissed climate change as an expensive, money-making hoax.
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“I can not speak for the president elect’s team or to their outlook on Global climate policy“, Pershing said at a press conference.
Even leaders like Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation and Kim Jong Un of North Korea have acknowledged the problem of global warming. A year on after adoption of the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate agreement entered into force, and at Marrakech, countries agreed to finalise the rule book for implementation by December 2018.
“We are in a spectacularly different place today than we were when President Obama took office”. While Trump has appointed Myron Ebell, considered to be a climate-change sceptic, to head his transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency – no concrete proposals have yet occurred as to how the USA could withdraw from its obligations.
The announcement, made last week, came as the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) sat for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
Speaking with reporters and editors from the New York Times on Tuesday, the president-elect was asked whether he believes human activity is linked to climate change, according to tweets from the Times’ Mike Grynbaum, who was present.
On a per-capita basis, rich countries like the United States, Australia and oil-rich Gulf nations, have the highest emissions.
Regarding the Paris Climate Agreement, Trump added “I have an open mind to it”.
Ribiera says this is not the ideal solution to the sudden uncertainty around the Paris Agreement.
It was reported earlier that Trump would, if he became President, seek an early exit from the 2015 Paris deal. Even among Republican supporters, the group that showed the lowest support for the deal, 57 percent of those polled said the US should participate in the climate deal.
Several EU leaders are already expressing their concern regarding Trump’s position on the issue, with several governments threatening to impose carbon taxes on goods imported from the US if the president decides to pull out of the agreement.
In the past, the upcoming commander-in-chief has expressed his doubt over the legitimacy of climate change a s a global issue.
“I think that countries will not do that to us”, Trump responded.
But in 2009 – ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit – Trump and dozens of top CEOs put their name to an open letter supporting Barack Obama’s “effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change”.
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The President-elect was heralded for changing his mind on global warming when he appeared to acknowledge that there was some connection between humanity and climate change.
