Trump signs order on withdrawing U.S. from the Paris climate agreement again
In a blow to the United States, President Donald Trump said on Monday he would once again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate accord. global effort to combat global warming and once again alienate the United States from its closest allies.
this announcementthat day has come Mr. Trump is sworn in Re-elected, echoing Trump’s actions 2017when he announced that the United States would abandon the global Paris Agreement. President Biden Later rejoined.
when he signed a a series of administrative actions After taking office, Trump said, “I will immediately withdraw from the unfair and one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.” He also signed a letter informing the United Nations of his decision.
The purpose of this agreement is Limit long-term global warming 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, or, failing that, maintaining temperatures well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) below pre-industrial levels. The United States is one of the top countries in the world carbon pollution nation.
The 2015 Paris Agreement is voluntary and allows countries to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. The targets should become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline to develop new individual plans.
The outgoing Biden administration last month Plan proposed to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions It will increase by more than 60% by 2035.
Laurence Tubiana, chief executive of the European Climate Foundation and a key architect of the Paris Agreement, called the U.S. planned withdrawal unfortunate but said action to slow climate change “is bigger than the politics and policies of any single country.” are more powerful.”
Tubiana said the global context for Trump’s actions was “very different than in 2017,” adding, “There are unstoppable economic dynamics behind the global transformation, from which the United States has benefited and led, but now faces risk of loss.”
She said the International Energy Agency predicts that the global market for key clean energy technologies will triple to more than US$2 trillion by 2035.
“The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening. scary wildfires The latest events in Los Angeles are a reminder that Americans, like everyone else, are affected by worsening climate change,” Tubiana said.
Dr. Rachel Cleetus, policy director and chief economist of the UCS Climate and Energy Program, called the move “a travesty.”
“Such a move shows clear contempt for scientific reality and demonstrates the administration’s indifference to the dire impacts of climate change that people in the United States and around the world are experiencing. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is an abdication of responsibility and undermines the extraordinary measures that people at home and abroad desperately need to Global action,” she said in a statement.
Gina McCarthy, who served as a White House climate adviser under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said that if Trump, a Republican, “truly wants America to lead the global economy, become energy independent and create good-paying jobs in America,” then he Must “continue to focus on growing our clean energy industry. Clean technology is lowering energy costs for people across the country.”
Global temperatures are now permanently 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 degrees Celsius) above the mid-1800s. Most, but not all, climate monitoring agencies say global temperatures exceeded the 2.7-degree Fahrenheit warming mark last year, and all say it was the hottest year on record.
According to an October report, without further reductions in the coming years, world temperatures will rise by more than 3 degrees Celsius. United Nations reportwarning that such an outcome would have “devastating consequences for people, the planet and the economy.”
The process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement will take a year. Trump’s previous withdrawal took effect the day after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden.
Although the first troop withdrawal under Trump Landmark United Nations Agreement Alden Meyer, a long-term climate negotiation analyst at the European think tank E3G, said that this measure was adopted by 196 countries, shocking and angering countries around the world. “No country has followed the footsteps of the United States.”
Instead, other countries have joined U.S. investors, businesses, governors, mayors and others in reaffirming their commitment to slowing climate change, Meyer and other experts said.
Still, they lamented the loss of U.S. leadership in global efforts to slow climate change, even as the world was on track for another record-breaking hot year and experienced hardships ranging from droughts to hurricanes, floods to wildfires.
“It is clear that the United States will not take a leading role in helping to solve the climate crisis, humanity’s greatest dilemma,” said climate activist and author Bill McKibben. “In the next few years, our best hope is “Washington will not undermine the efforts of other countries.”
Roughly half of Americans are reportedly “somewhat” or “strongly” opposed to the U.S. withdrawing from the climate deal, and even Republicans are not overwhelmingly supportive. a public opinion poll From The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults “somewhat” or “strongly” support withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, while about a quarter are neutral.
Much of the opposition to the U.S. withdrawal comes from Democrats, but Republicans also show some ambivalence. Just under half of Republicans support withdrawing from the climate deal, while about 2 in 10 oppose it.
A few years ago, China surpassed the United States as the world’s largest annual emitter of carbon dioxide. The United States – the second-biggest annual carbon polluter – will pump 4.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air by 2023, 11% less than a decade ago, according to scientists tracking emissions from the Global Carbon Project.
but carbon dioxide It persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so the United States now emits more of the heat-trapping gas in the air than any other country. Since 1950, the United States has emitted nearly 22% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to the Global Carbon Project.
While global efforts to combat climate change have continued during Trump’s first term, many experts worry that Trump’s second term will be even more damaging, with the United States further withdrawing from climate efforts that could Efforts to undermine future presidents. Trump, at the helm of the world’s leading economy, has dismissed climate change, and experts worry other countries, especially China, could use it as an excuse to ease their own efforts to curb carbon emissions.
United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Steel hopes the United States can continue to embrace the global clean energy boom.
“Ignoring this will only transfer vast wealth to rival economies, while climate disasters such as droughts, wildfires and superstorms become increasingly severe,” Steele said. “The door remains open to the Paris Agreement We are open to constructive participation from any country.”
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