Paris climate pact needed for sake of Mother Earth, Merkel says

Paris Climate Deal Not Tough Enough On India China Donald Trump
India will be allowed to double its coal production said Donald Trump on Paris climate deal
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03 June, 2017

Japan's environment minister, Koichi Yamamoto, said in Tokyo: "I'm not just disappointed, but also feel anger".

User "kisschick" says: "Trump's ignorant and reckless decision to exist the Paris Climate agreement will give greater powers to our country over the next decade".

Schweitzer said other countries should stick to their commitments, but warned that attempting to compensate for the USA withdrawal by other countries redoubling their commitments would be self-defeating.

Without directly name-checking President Trump, the statement hits out at the current administration for joining "a small handful of nations that reject the future".

By contrast, Trump has pulled the United States out of President Barack Obama's ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that would have spanned a dozen nations from the U.S.to Chile to Japan.

Countries will meet next year for the first time since the pact was signed to review the overall impact of their efforts on the 2 C target. Connecticut's George Shapiro said environmental issues are "very, very high on that list" of issues likely to become a new, travel ban-style legal flashpoint with the Trump White House.

He also failed to mention that China's emissions have been stable or falling since 2013, and are forecast to fall by around 1 percent this year.

In 2015, there was a huge global deal to do something about climate change.

The announcement by Trump led to business titans Elon Musk and Disney CEO Bob Iger announcing that they would be resigning from Trump's advisory council.

In Europe this week, Premier Li Keqiang appears to be grasping that challenge - or exploiting that vacuum.

The readout added: "He noted America's strong record in reducing emissions and leading the development of clean energy technology, and he reiterated that the United States under the Trump Administration, will be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth". Tim Cook said as much on Thursday in a tweet and company-wide memo after Trump made the withdrawal official. The White House said the US will stop contributing to the United Nations Green Climate Fund and will stop reporting carbon data as required by the Paris accord, although domestic regulations require that reporting anyway. Brexit can not be used as an excuse to put off, delay or prevent the action on climate change which is desperately needed now, not in a decade's time. Once a reluctant actor on the environmental stage, China has been far more forthcoming about its intentions to cut emissions since the USA election in November.

And although China remains heavily reliant on coal and pollution is a persistent problem for its 1.3 billion citizens, the country's communist rulers say they're determined to institute fundamental change. "However, he was the leader of our country, fairly elected, and absent some national defense issue, we ought to keep our word when the president signs on behalf of the United States". Governors and analysts cited moves including California's effort to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, northeast states potentially tightening maximum allowances for carbon and OR working on measures to put a price on carbon.

The next government must get on board with the renewable energy revolution and make our electricity generation carbon free by 2030.

Meanwhile, African nations are protesting Trump's decision. In fact, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim said in a statement that the Paris Accord is an "unstoppable effort" and the US' decision will not change that.

It takes place alongside the two-day EU-China political summit, which began on Thursday. I believe that Russian Federation should pay first priority attention to problems of adaptation to future climate changes.


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