China practically says Trump lied about climate change

In 2012, he tweeted that the concept of global warming “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make USA manufacturing non-competitive”.

The president-elect repeatedly said during his campaign that climate change was a hoax created by China and that, if elected, he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Asked about Trump’s campaign pledge to “cancel” US involvement in the Paris Agreement on fighting climate change, Solymos was philosophical. Trump has repeatedly questioned the science behind man-made global warming.

Trump’s successful bid for the USA presidency has put environmentalists and climate change scientists into a spiral. No one seems to take Trump’s tweets seriously during that time.

“Finance and investment hold the key to achieving low-emissions and resilient societies”, Mr. Ban said in remarks read by his Special Advisor on Climate Change, Bob Orr, to a High-Level Ministerial dialogue on climate financing at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

At the conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to quell anxieties regarding the US’s commitments to the Paris deal, according to Reuters.

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett is not hearing any indications that other big emitters would pull out of the Paris agreement if the US President-elect Donald Trump carries out his threat to rip up the deal. “This agreement gives foreign bureaucrats control over how much energy we use right here in America”.

“Countries have strongly supported the agreement because they realise their own national interest is best secured by pursuing the common good”.

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, said the world is in a race against time.

Trump’s now-infamous tweet resurfaced during the first presidential debate on September 26 when then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton confronted Trump over his claim, although she did not explicitly mention his tweet.

Despite the uncertainty caused by Trump’s election victory, Liu is optimistic about the prospect of the climate change negotiations process. He also says that he doesn’t think US emissions reduction pledges “can or will be reversed” because of the market mechanisms in play. The strategy “envisions economy-wide net GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions reductions of 80 percent or more below 2005 levels by 2050”.

Ms Bennett said the focus at the conference has now moved to action, and “what we do to implement change and reduce emissions around the world”.

The outgoing Secretary-General whose second five-year term ends on December 31, 2016 stressed that financing is central to building resilience. “Every month so far has broken a record”, he added.

It comes as countries meet in Morocco for the latest round of United Nations climate negotiations, focused on implementing the Paris Agreement. Morocco’s King Mohammed VI (sixth from left) posted with other African leaders for a picture on Wednesday.

The United States worked closely with China previous year to build support for the Paris agreement, and the partnership of the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters helped persuade other countries to back the agreement.