Message to Trump? Countries say climate fight ‘irreversible’

Benedito Braga, president of the World Water Council, said at the event, “While humanity experiences increasing demographic and socioeconomic stresses, recent episodes of extreme climate around the world bring additional complexities in finding solutions to reduce these stresses. It has a huge role, a huge weight”.

Trump in 2012 infamously claimed China had created the concept of climate change to make America’s manufacturing sector less competitive, dubbing the global phenomenon “bulls**t” and “non-existent”.

The European nations, Peru, Costa Rica and other nations are slated to discuss their strategies November 17 at the Marrakech talks; the hope is that in a few years, dozens of nations will have joined the U.S.in detailing their low-carbon economic development strategies, Laurence Tubiana, French climate change ambassador, told reporters November 16.

The Obama administration has rolled out a slew of last-minute regulations since Mr Trump’s election, with more planned in the coming weeks.

He said that the United Kingdom would be looking to expand the clean energy sector. “Failure to build a low carbon economy puts American prosperity at risk”, the companies said.

The election of a US president who questions whether global warming is real has caused alarm among environmental activists, scientists and the almost 200 governments around the world that have made common cause with one another in the fight against climate change. Leading diplomats said they expected the pact to be followed with or without the US.

“President-elect Trump should accept the Paris Treaty on climate to buy some goodwill overseas”, O’Reilly said.

Many countries welcomed the announcement.

Zambian president Edgar Lungu said on Wednesday the least developed countries were being left “with far too little support, and adaptation needs continue to be neglected rather than prioritised”.

Fiji is doing what it can to tackle climate change with its own resources, its prime minister said, improving building codes and better equipping communities to withstand shocks.

This week’s summit meeting was intended as a low-key follow-up to agree on details for carrying out the deal, which was agreed to a year ago, with the United States taking a leading role.

The world has sent a message to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump: no backsliding on crucial climate commitments.

As established by the UN Environmental Programme, it is believed that by the year 2030, carbon dioxide emissions will reach 56 gigatonnes annually – a number way above what is needed to uphold the 3.6 degree limit.

“We call for strong solidarity with those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and underscore the need to support efforts aimed to enhance their adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability”.

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The analysis was done by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.