China will take the lead as Trump scores climate change own

In an address that included the dark rhetorical flourishes of the campaign trail, he railed against nations that he said were using the accord to give themselves an economic edge over the US. “I’ve answered the question a couple times“.

The move was also roundly condemned throughout the U.S.as mayors and state governors said they would continue to commit to the climate change agreement.

“While funding from governments remains central to our work, this kind of support is crucial for the work of the Secretariat to assist nations in their efforts to implement their commitments under the Paris Climate Change Agreement”, Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in response to the billionaire’s offer. Viewed in that light, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement that we need to expand fossil-fuel production in order to pay for Canada’s emissions reductions makes no sense.

Republican US congressional leaders backed Trump. Let’s spend a moment breaking this down.

Maybe that’s because there’s no indication he has one. “But the bottom line is that the Paris accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States“, Trump said.

Numerous other signatory states are also already moving toward a greener future, and the alliance may encourage them to set more aggressive goals.

“If we can grow our economy, we’re going to consume more and more products”, he said.

“I absolutely disagree with the administration on this issue, but we have a responsibility to engage our elected officials to work constructively and advocate for policies that improve people’s lives and protect our environment”, Dimon said.

“I think that when he retools a new deal and puts us back in, business will be happy and environmentalists will be happy as well”, he added.

Oh, and he’s on the other side of his daughter.

The goal of the accord is to reduce emissions by 2025, and most nations are expected to begin reducing emissions around 2020, although China, which has a severe smog problem in some cities, may be doing so ahead of schedule.

A dozen large companies, including oil major BP, agrochemical giant DuPont, Google, Intel and Microsoft, have urged Trump to remain in the deal.

More and more of them are worrying about it.

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker lashed as “seriously wrong” Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate deal.

This all illustrates the key point – as far as the climate is concerned, what matters is not what Trump says or does, but how the rest of America and the rest of the world responds, both politically and practically.

Catastrophic climate change? Not in my lifetime.

. And that’s hard to explain, too.

If he agrees with most mainstream scientists that climate change is an imminent threat – well, then he just did the exact opposite of what those same scientists advise.