04 June, 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May has told Donald Trump of her "disappointment" with his decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. What that withdrawal means for climate change and American standing in the world. The Paris Agreement is a milestone of the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is committed to ongoing annual meetings to regularly revisit and ratchet up nations' climate goals, making them more ambitious over time.
Defending the government's decision not to sign the declaration, Chief Treasury Secretary David Gauke said on BBC Newsnight: "Different countries will take different approaches in how we choose to express our opinion".
"I call on them, come and work here with us, to work together on concrete solutions for our climate, our environment".
It is clear that whoever takes office in the United Kingdom on the 9th of June will be committed to tackling climate change.
"If the United States pulls out of Paris, it sets in motion potentially an acceleration of the original Paris prognosis we had, which is that this probably ends with trade-based measures", particularly because the agreement didn't include enforcement provisions, Book said before the president's announcement.
On Thursday the US president announced he would pull his country out of the landmark agreement that has commitments from every country in the world except Syria and Nicaragua.
Climate researchers have immediately taken issue with the President's use of the data.
Leaders from the chemical and scientific enterprises expressed disappointment that President Donald J. Trump announced he will withdraw the US from a landmark climate change deal. West Virginia Coal Association Senior Vice President Chris Hamilton said United States withdrawal from the Paris accord would build confidence in USA mining and industry even if it wouldn't make major changes on the ground.
"Given the chance to present a united front with our worldwide partners, she has instead opted for silence and subservience to Donald Trump", Corbyn said.
Let's be clear, that means economic opportunity for other countries.
In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that the USA withdrawal won't prevent the rest of the world from pressing ahead with efforts to curb global warming. In New York, Cuomo announced he would use executive orders to ensure his state continues to abide by the Paris agreement. "The Paris agreement is a good deal for Canada and it's a good deal for the world", she told reporters. Already, renewable energy investments like the one at Green Port Hull are employing thousands of people, and export markets are growing.
"In Berlin, Greenpeace activists projected Trump's silhouette onto the side of the US embassy along with the words "#TotalLoser, so sad!"
The Paris Agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise in this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.