CT, US firms, call on Trump to address climate change

During the election campaign, Trump expounded on his idea, saying, “We are going to cancel the Paris climate agreement and stop all payments of USA tax dollars to United Nations global warming programs”.

This is the latest in the about-turns from his acerbic campaign rhetoric.

Trump had tempered his stance on climate change and said he would be keeping an “open mind” about the Paris Climate Agreement.

In the wake of the presidential election, there has been much speculation about whether the US will fulfill the pledges our nation made in Paris.

But on Tuesday, at a meeting with reporters that itself experienced a U-turn in regard to whether or not it would even take place, he said: “I’m looking at it very closely”.

“I absolutely have an open mind”.

And he said that China’s President Xi Jinping had underlined the importance of continued cooperation on climate between the two largest economies when he spoke to Trump on Monday.

The best we can say at this point is that the president-elect does not appear devoted to actively denying the existence of climate change, and that it is not yet a foregone conclusion that he’ll abandon the Paris Agreement. It would be a three- or four-year process to get out of the Paris Agreement officially, but there is not exactly an global police that punishes countries for not reaching their goals-the only real punishment is getting shame from the other countries, something we have had a lot of recently. The agreement highlights the need and the commitment of the signatory countries to work to keep the global warming limit to well below 2°C to ensure a sustainable future.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to pull out of the Paris Agreement for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from fossil fuels.

Heading up Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

During his conversation with the New York Times that nearly didn’t happen, Trump fielded questions about climate change, and the dude may have lost his script. “He is the only head of state in the world who is an all-out climate denier and he has the most radical, anti-environmental policies of anyone to ever assume the role of the presidency”. “We must decide on how best to proceed so that we can make lives better, safer and more prosperous”, Trump said. The president-elect’s previous statements on climate change, which include saying that the concept was “created” by the Chinese, have put him at odds with most world leaders and an overwhelming majority of scientists. “Among all partisans, there has been an increase in those who want to take some kind of a step to mitigate climate change”, she said. “Climate change shouldn’t be a partisan issue”.