Climate change undeniable: United Nations chief after US' withdrawal

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04 June, 2017

In announcing the nation's withdrawal from the accord Thursday, Trump argued that the climate agreement negotiated under President Barack Obama was unfair to USA workers.

"Paris or no Paris, our conviction and our traditions say that we can not snatch the rights of our future generations", said Modi while on stage with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg economic forum.

Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, now serves as the United Nations secretary-general's special envoy for cities and climate change. While this move is likely to have a limited effect on United States emissions in the short term, the effects, however, will be felt globally.

"Apparently the White House has no idea how an global treaty works", Ms Figueres said.

The UN Environment Chief Erik Solheim joined other experts and analysts as saying that the U.S. withdrawal will put India and China in leadership positions in the global fight to combat climate change.

May's Downing St. office would not say whether she had been asked to sign it.

However, Russian President Vladimir Putin spared Trump more withering criticism and urged the world to work with the NY tycoon on climate.

The landmark agreement, which entered into force last November, calls on countries to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future, and to adapt to the increasing impacts of climate change.

But EU officials said the two sides failed to formally endorse a joint statement on the issue due to a lingering but separate trade row. We may be able to do this without the president.

The process does give Mr Trump legal authority to withdraw but he is still required to follow the four year process outlined in the agreement. Even though the country has signed the agreement it has not yet ratified it and the final decision will be taken not earlier than in January 2019.

Russian Federation has signed but not yet ratified the Paris agreement, saying it needs more time to assess the potential impacts on its economy. Without U.S. leadership, achieving the voluntary targets agreed to by the 195 countries that signed the accord will be far more hard. And that means that pledging to unleash America's "abundant domestic energy" sources-by which Trump explained he meant oil, gas, and coal-will make it immensely more hard to honor those temperature targets, even if the rest of the world continues galloping forward. If enough people hop on board-and it certainly looks like it's possible-it may not matter what Trump says or does internationally.


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