If Donald Trump were to become the US President, will the United States of America, which is the largest consumer of energy in the world, honour the Paris Climate Agreement?
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“We’re going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payment of USA tax dollars to United Nations global warming programs”, Trump said in an energy policy speech on May 26.
“I think everybody’s aware of that possibility and just concerned about it”, she said.
She said Liberia as a country will achieve sustainable development, combat climate change and alleviate poverty through the accessing of the needed funds with the ratification of the Paris Document.
“What would happen? What would be the reaction of the worldwide community?”
There was skepticism from some quarters even when the draft agreement on climate change was signed in Paris, since many people thought that the conference agreed on the need to aggressively address the climate change issues, but failed to detail with clarity as to how it would be done.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited states to deposit their instruments of ratification or approval of the Paris deal at the one-hour event on Wednesday morning. Approximately 30 countries are expected to deposit their instruments of ratification during a one-hour gathering at United Nations headquarters. This is not a matter of conjecture or political opinion – it is the conclusion of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists, based on solid evidence that mounts each year.
“The Paris Agreement gives an unequivocal signal to investors, so we now look forward to swift action by ministers to implement the policy measures and regulatory frameworks required to ensure climate action and risk disclosure are placed front and centre of the UK’s efforts to secure strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth”.
After worldwide agreements are finalized it often takes years for countries to formally join the agreement and for the agreement to take effect.
“There’s a good competition” among countries to ratify as quickly as possible, she told Agence France-Presse, “even if we have to stay vigilant”.
To take effect, 55 parties responsible for at least 55 of global emissions of greenhouse gases must join the accord.
If that happens, as is highly expected, this would bring to 57 countries representing 58% of emissions – well over the 55 threshold this year.
Now that several months have gone after the signing of the draft agreement in Paris, one gets an impression that the world is still not moving with the sense of urgency that the challenge of global warming needs.
Nations are expected to meet again November 7 for yet another round of U.N. negotiations, this time in Marrakech, for the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 22). But countries that had not yet ratified the agreement would be excluded from participating formally in those talks-an unintended effect that the conveners are studying how to avoid.
The officials told journalists in NY on Thursday that the United Nations had so far received 27 ratifications covering 39 per cent of global emissions, including from the world’s top two greenhouse gas emitters, the United States and China. There might be some deadline by which time decisionmaking would revert back to the countries that had ratified, she said.
Translating worldwide agreements into global law usually takes years.
Kerry Emanuel, professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another letter organizer, said “We all reacted with some shock to statements from the Republican platform that would have reversed decades of progress”.
“Human-caused climate change is not a belief, a hoax, or a conspiracy”.
And this year’s negotiations must produce a road map toward the $100 billion a year by 2020 that developed countries have promised to raise to help poor nations cope with warming. And most importantly, countries will have to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work of policymaking to drive their economies towards a low carbon and climate resilient future.
“Ingersoll Rand is very focused on making existing buildings more efficient because they are, by and large, very inefficient”, Tew said.
“Putting an oil executive in charge of our public lands and precious coasts in places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida is a virtual guarantee that Trump’s promise to throw open season on drilling in our special places will come true if he’s elected”, Khalid Pitts, the national political director at the Sierra Club, told Politico.
Kyte remembered the Mexican delegation engaging with countries well in advance of Cancun, with everyone feeling they had their “three minutes” with Espinosa and then-UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, she said.
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This, Cameron says, is why businesses should attend, or at least pay attention to, this week’s events.
