To Meet Climate Goals Despite Trump Plan

Climate economists have found that green energy R&D investment would be a much more efficient approach.

Concerns that Donald Trump’s tenure as US President could hit the responsible investment industry are growing, following reports last week he is already planning to cut NASA’s budget for monitoring climate change in favour of sending humans to the moon again.

The self-congratulatory mood at the conference was shattered by the news of the election of Trump, who has pledged to pull out of the entire process, calling global warming a “hoax”.

Franklin also said that he appreciated being involved with COP22 to advance efforts toward actions on climate change.

Donald Trump might not be quite the hardcore climate change denier he pretended to be during the campaign. -China Cities Summit on Climate Change, we announced a partnership between the Compact of Mayors and China’s Alliance of Peaking Pioneer Cities.

Only a few months later, though, when Trump was asked about climate change on Fox News, he told host Neil Cavuto that the cold weather (it was January) was evidence that there was no climate change.

“It was fitting that on African soil it was the most vulnerable countries who showed the most leadership with their bold pledges to switch to 100% renewable energy as soon as possible”. This commitment is streets ahead of the ambition of the developed countries.

India had earlier welcomed the proclamation, saying that most of its demands including the issue of providing finance to developing nations to tackle climate change has been incorporated and the country will continue to push its agenda as per the Paris agreement.

During the 2016 presidential race, the business mogul had vowed to rescind the majority of President Barack Obama’s environmental regulations and to tear up the US involvement in the Paris Climate Agreement.

The agreement sets a goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial revolution levels. “Our commitment to be climate leaders remains steadfast, as is our commitment to work with the whole global community, including the United States, to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our time“. The Chinese invested $103 billion in renewable energy previous year, more than one-third of the world’s total.

He has vowed to terminate President Barack Obama’s executive actions aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants. Finally, it exposes as false the talking point that skepticism of the Paris agreement is outside the political mainstream. The UN’s Climate Change newsroom has produced a full account of the “achievements” of Marrakech.

Then the president-elect moved on to “climategate”, the 2009 leak of emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia. Fiji will host COP 23, but the venue will be in Bonn, the home of the convention’s secretariat. Those who are gloomy about the climate still expect America to ignore or withdraw from the Paris agreement, or to abandon the 1992 United Nations framework that underpins it.

In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday with editors and reporters at The New York Times, Trump said he would “keep an open mind” about the Paris accord, which he has repeatedly said he planned to either renegotiate or cancel if elected. Will he follow through once he’s sworn in as president?

Fear is understandable. We have much to learn about the new administration’s plans.

Cities – along with businesses, and private citizens – will lead on climate change, because they have “concluded that doing so is in their own self-interest”, Bloomberg said. But Trump’s endorsement of Farage is further evidence of the growing links between United Kingdom politicians and USA counterparts with a history of climate science denialism in the wake of June’s Brexit decision. “Having finally achieved it, the United States would serve no one’s interests-least its own-by walking away”.