Be Afraid: Trump’s Presidency Will Be an Environmental Disaster

“The Paris Agreement carries an enormous amount of weight and credibility”, she told a news conference. Trump in the past has scoffed at the notion that a warming climate was human-induced. After a long and arduous process with strong USA leadership to organize worldwide action on climate change, momentum had been built behind the current process of nationally-determined goals and nationally designed strategies.

The central focus of the negotiations will be placed on enhancing ambition, promoting implementation and providing support for the global response to the threat of climate change. “We must decide on how best to proceed so that we can make lives better, safer and more prosperous”.

The election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States has opened the door for the European Union to reassure the world that that the global low carbon transition is unstoppable.

“But now that the election campaign has passed”, Heine added in her statement, “I expect he will realise that climate change is a threat to his people and to whole countries which share seas with the USA, including my own”. “I think science is real”.

President-elect Donald Trump pumps his fist after giving his acceptance speech as his wife Melania Trump, right, and their son Barron Trump follow him during his election night rally in NY.

It probably wouldn’t be hard for Trump to dump the climate deal.

“Pulling out of the Paris agreement matters not just in leadership, but also in a direct impact on the climate”, Jones said.

Trump also promised to backtrack on commitment under the Paris agreement if elected, though withdrawing process may take up to four years. “What we will do is be vigilant and attentive”. The expected outcomes include a Marrakesh declaration on health, environment and climate change and identification of ways and means for a potential future coalition and a proposal for ensuring health is considered a priority for financing.

How possible that is, with Donald Trump as US President, remains to be seen.

During his campaign, the Republican vowed to do dismantle various regulations brought in during the tenure of Barack Obama, including the Paris climate accord, which came into effect only last week.

Even though he’s said that he would rip up the Agreement, now that it’s officially gone into force, he’d have to wait until at least 2020 to do so. And it would then take a year for the withdrawal to complete.

“We have to wait and see whether the new USA government will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, but no matter what happens in the new government of the United States, I think China will continue our action and will continue participating in the global multilateral process”. The US is the world’s second-highest carbon-dioxide emitter after China.

Many people at United Nations climate talks in Morocco said it’s now up to the rest of the world to lead efforts to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions.

However, with the Trump presidency now in place, all seems a bit more uncertain. Trump could simply declare that the United States is withdrawing from the pact.

Negotiators from almost 200 countries around the world are meeting in Morocco this week to hash out the details of the landmark climate-change agreement struck in Paris last December.

“The ice caps don’t negotiate, and neither do rising seas”.