Climate momentum will continue: U.S. envoy on Trump vote

President-elect Donald Trump is inching closer to naming more cabinet picks.even as he celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday with his family in Florida. Secretary Kerry has established that he will work until the last day of Obama’s Presidency to ensure full US participation in the agreement.

The 2015 Paris Agreement to limit climate change entered into force on November 4 after winning swift backing from major greenhouse-gas emitters led by China, the United States and the European Union, opening a harder phase when they will have to keep their promises for action.

In affirming the effort to combat climate change, the letter states that those signing it “want the USA economy to be energy efficient and powered by low-carbon energy”.

Hence, China, the world’s second largest economy and the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (accounting for over 25 per cent of total GHG emissions against 15 per cent in the case of the US), has now committed to an emissions abatement plan.

California, in particular, has been a leader in emissions reductions and climate change planning for years.

Trump’s interest in the subject of climate change appears to have been awakened by his effort to develop a golf course in Scotland.

Asked specifically about a white nationalist conference in Washington, D.C. over the weekend, at which some attendees had their arms outstretched in a Nazi salute, Trump said: “I disavow and condemn them”.

He said he would have difficulty selling off all his holdings because they involve real estate and dismissed concerns about the Trump Organization’s ties to entities controlled by foreign governments.

However, despite the negative sentiment surrounding prospects for responsible investing following the United States election, some managers have so far dismissed Trump’s comments and stated that longer term, the outlook for the sector remains positive.

On a number of occasions, Trump has denied the truth of climate science.

In the midday meeting in the boardroom of Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Trump seemed confident even as he said he was awed by his new job. The country takes warnings from its own scientists seriously and knows that the related problems of air pollution and climate change could create risky political risks for the regime. Perhaps, he said, “global warming – which I don’t necessarily believe in, at least the human part – is going to take care of that”. Trump has pledged to pull back the rule. “If you remember, the Paris Accord was only signed by the president as an agreement”.

President-elect Donald Trump this week indicated a shift in his position on climate change – which he had previously denounced as a hoax. The impacts will hurt vulnerable people most, and we have an obligation to amplify their stories.

No, China didn’t make up climate change.

“I think right now… well, I think there is some connectivity”.

This is very much in line with Trump’s campaign promise of “investment in research and development across the broad landscape of academia” and with its suggestion that we could develop “energy sources and power production that alleviates the need for dependence on fossil fuels”.

“The disaster that Donald Trump represents for the climate can not be understated”, Jamie Henn, a spokesman for 350.org, an environmental advocacy group, told CNN last week.

Trump in the past has referred to climate change as a “hoax” created “by and for the Chinese to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.

“He’s saying … now that he has the weight of the presidency, he’ll take a closer look”, David Goldston, director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Bloomberg BNA.