Trump fears push nations at Morocco talks

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This trend could bode well for proponents of the climate change deal, who are anxious Trump will stick to his campaign promise of abandoning the agreement. The cost of allowing third-world poverty to persist-and the role that energy development can play in alleviating that poverty-is far clearer, more threatening, and more easily solvable than the vague and unsubstantiated risks posed by carbon emissions.

The convening of CAM1 and the operationalization of the Paris Agreement are a major achievement for which this climate conference will be remembered, Charles said. But the non-binding deal is still very much a work in progress.

Countries, including the United States, have pledged to curb emissions under the deal by moving to renewable energy sources.

The idea that Trump, as a businessman, must be in favour of clean energy and innovation, appears to have reassured other business leaders that the Paris Agreement is in safe hands.

The text also highlights the crucial role the private sector and other non-state actors will play in the low-carbon transition – a key theme over the last two weeks in Marrakesh as governments have explored how to continue to drive deep emissions reductions if the U.S. does quit the treaty.

The keystone of the USA 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. He opposes the Clean Power Plan, which is aimed at reducing carbon emissions, calling it illegal.

Mr Trump has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement and promised a coal revival. He put a prominent climate change denier, Myron Ebell, in charge of his Environmental Protection Agency transition team.

Ebell, though not a scientist, has emerged as one of the world’s foremost climate deniers. An important part of the Paris Agreement (and most worldwide agreements) is money.

US Secretary of State John Kerry underlined the perils that await the world if leaders drag their feet on cutting planet-warming greenhouse gases, while poor nations and small-island states highlighted their own vulnerability to the predicted climate catastrophe.

His campaign team said he did believe in naturally occurring “shifts”.

In a Tweet in 2012, Trump had accused China of creating the “hoax” that is climate change, and recently, they finally hit back.

He said if Trump dismantles Obama policies such as the Climate Action Plan and Clean Power Plan, then USA emissions would stay at current levels instead of decrease.

“It’s late in July and it is really cold outside in NY”, he wrote in July 2014.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol demanded targeted emission cuts from rich and industrialised countries, mainly responsible for causing global warming. A few proactive States should champion more ambitious USA climate policy. “It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE”.

“I have seen for myself the projects New Zealand already has under way”. But without strict regulatory standards or oversight, companies will be left freer to pick and choose which climate-friendly policies to pursue, and which they will choose to ignore or abandon.

“The president-elect is going to have to make his decision”, Kerry said on Tuesday to reporters.