Kerry: ‘Overwhelming majority’ in US back Paris climate deal

Slovakian Environment Minister Laszlo Solymos, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, says “it’s not easy to jump off a fast moving train. Only in this way will we achieve … making life on the planet healthier for current and future generations”, he said.

“I know to address all these issues we need to have good institutions and mechanisms”.

Meanwhile, delegates from many countries and the European Union have reiterated their support for continued climate action, and their intention to fulfill the emissions reductions plans they published as part of the Paris Agreement.

They issued the letter Wednesday during a major United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, where representatives of almost 200 countries were gathered to hash out the details of the Paris climate deal.

Trump has called global warming a “hoax” on social media and promised during his campaign to “cancel” the Paris deal adopted a year ago.

As security guards led him away, he said “we will not be silenced”. The first $500,000 instalment was paid last March, angering critics in the U.S. Congress.

We support leaders around the world as they seek to implement the Paris Agreement and leverage this historic opportunity to tackle climate change.

Ban stressed that the world has to come up with strategies to mitigate climate change aggressively by 2018 and make a transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy.

“If we don’t go far enough, fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo”, he said.

“We’ll certainly be raising the issue of climate change with the president elect and when he becomes president of the United States”.

Liu capped off his comments on America by saying the country should be more positive on climate change, considering it had a huge market from green energy and the technology to prosper from a low-carbon economy.

If he follows through on his promises, he would undo the legacy of President Barack Obama.

The agreement calls for countries to meet every five years to review progress on reaching emissions goals, which are non-binding.

Kerry was speaking Wednesday at a United Nations climate conference in Marrakech.

“The U.S. has the largest economy in the world, ” he said during an afternoon plenary session at the conference.

Trump once tweeted that the concept of global warming was a conspiracy orchestrated by the Chinese to make USA manufacturing non-competitive.

The BASIC ministers who met in Marrakesh said there can be no “backtracking” on the commitments made by the developed nations and no attempts should be made to “renegotiate” the terms of the Paris Agreement.

He got a big applaud from the audience on this remark that the Paris Agreement deal has as a framework that is “built to last”.

Trump has called climate change a “hoax” perpetrated by China and has promised to “cancel” the hard-fought Paris Agreement concluded a year ago to limit risky global warming.

The Obama administration pledged during the Paris negotiations to reduce US emissions by 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.