Former White House staffer on what Trump means for climate science

Many environmental groups – together with countries in the global south such as Ecuador and Bolivia – have argued for a climate justice approach that would make the countries historically responsible for fueling climate change, including the United States, carry the burden of financing the global transition to clean energy.

Moroccan foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar put on a courageous face as the talks hit the half-way point, saying they remained on track for the arrival next week of some 60 heads of state.

“We should wait and see”, Espinosa said, adding the global climate entity would try to forge a “strong relation with the Trump administration”.

Following his surprise victory, a cloud of anxiety has settled over global observers and negotiators meeting at a United Nations conference in Morocco – where they are trying to hash out details of the Paris Agreement struck previous year in which over 190 countries, including the United States, agreed to cut carbon emissions.

The tally of ratifications has hit 105, with new ones added nearly daily, said Mezouar, the president of the forum.

“Now that the election campaign has passed and the realities of leadership settle in, I expect he will realize that climate change is a threat to his people and to whole countries which share seas with the USA, including my own”, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine said in a statement.

But the elephant in the room remained, despite efforts to ignore or banish it.

The promise oft repeated during the campaign – that has deeply shaken the United Nations talks – is in fact still there, black-on-white.

If a Trump administration follows his campaign rhetoric and advisers, then his most immediate and far-reaching environmental target will be domestic and global efforts to address climate change.

Edmonton Strathcona NDP MP Linda Duncan spoke on the Alberta Morning News and she said the United States have been a large part of getting to the Paris climate pact. Less than a week after the election, things are already looking bad on the climate front. Only $500 million of that pledge has been disbursed so far. But no matter what turn the United States takes, China made it clear it remains firm on continuing of a low carbon path. The US Supreme Court that stayed the implementation of the regulations is expected to hear the case early next year. “I hope that most countries will decide to move on, because there are very serious consequences”.

I think there’s momentum that simply can’t be stopped. Kerry who became the highest-ranking American official to. They also agreed to hold governments to account.

“We heard the candidate. No US president can change that”.

“Like an old superhero who comes out of retirement to save the day, we need the European Union to dust off its climate cape and help save the planet”. The 2009 Copenhagen Accord committed the developed world to mobilize $100 billion per year to support green growth and climate resilience in developing countries. Short of a miraculous conversion, the president-elect has not left himself much room to back away from economic policy proposals to undo a laundry list of climate-change measures, which could plunge worldwide efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions into chaos.

Almost 200 countries last December, including the Philippines, agreed on a binding global compact to slash greenhouse gases and keep global temperature increases to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. The conference will conclude on November 18.