Kerry: Not fighting climate change is a betrayal

If President-elect Donald Trump is going to go soft on climate change regulations, big business is going to put up a big stink. “I hope he will be engaging closely with world leaders and he will be closely working together with the United Nations”.

More than 365 businesses and investors, from more than a dozen Fortune 500 firms to small, family-owned businesses across more than 35 states, sent a strong message today to President Barack Obama, President-elect Donald Trump and other elected USA and global leaders, reaffirming their support for the historic Paris climate agreement and the need to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy at home and around the world. But he acknowledged he has had no contact with Trump’s transition team.

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”, his tweet said.

The Government of Tonga’s approach comes years ahead of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific, which was endorsed in September 2016 by Pacific Island leaders.

The UN-driven global climate change talks aim at preventing global average temperature rise and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The keystone of the U.S. plan to meet its Paris accord commitments is now tied up in federal courts, with the Environmental Protection Agency fighting a legal challenge from almost two dozen states, the Chamber of Commerce and coal-mining companies.

The new administration has created a huge amount of uncertainty and that’s bad for business.

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“Heads of state can and will change”, Pershing said.

“It is unclear what Trump will do on climate policy”. Right now, it’s even more so. The organizations argue that although climate financing is a crucial part of the picture, compensation alone is not enough – action is also needed. “Not climate denial – but Trump denial”.

Fears Trump would try and hijack Kerry’s speech with a climate-related announcement of his own appear to have been unfounded, but all eyes in the climate community are now on the President-elect to see if he will provide any steer on his thinking on climate change before the scheduled close of the Marrakesh Summit on Friday. The world must now wait to see if the incoming Trump administration will honor those commitments, or if the U.S. will become a rogue nation that denies the very existence of climate change as a hoax “created by and for the Chinese to make USA manufacturing less competitive”.

The comments came as representatives from around the world entered into their second week of meetings at the United Nations climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco. “Now that Trump is the president-elect, I think people are waiting and giving him a chance to explain his positions”. “It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE”.

“Ultimately, clean energy is expected to be a multi-trillion dollar market – the largest market the world has ever known”, he said. “And clean energy is about growth and jobs”. And he might just give humans a chance for an orderly retreat from our now-destructive allegiance to fossil fuels and a successful reach for sustainability and climate survival instead.

Trump’s administration might also prove to be hard for environment and Earth science. He appears to be tapping fossil fuel barons and anti-environmental regulation industrialists to stack his senior administration.

If Trump and Republicans in Congress can unify on energy policy, they may strive to revise or eliminate pollution regulations affecting everything from mileage in new cars to pollution from power plants.

He addressed a crowd that had come to Marrakech elated by the success of last year’s Paris Agreement, but who are now anxious that president-elect Donald Trump will follow through on his plan to scrap US commitments on both emission reductions and climate finance.

“Of course we’re still expecting developed countries including the United States will continue to take the lead on mitigating climate change”, he said. “We should marshal an army of tools to mobilise investments to fight climate change”.