Trump admits ‘some connectivity’ between climate change and human activity

On the other hand, there is a veiled hope that the negative impacts of US climate policy-or lack thereof-under Trump will be limited as other countries by the current momentum in technological advancement and other factors.

The agreement has recently come under the global spotlight, due to US President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated threats of nullifying his country’s participation.

The climate deal has so far been ratified by 111 countries. “However, climate change is a serious and urgent issue for Africa and putting the commitments to action is paramount going forward”.

The first United Nations climate conference after the landmark Paris Agreement closed Friday with delegates appealing to Donald Trump to join the battle against global warming and inviting him to see its impacts in Pacific islands.

“These countries are already living the terrifying reality of climate change today and their very existence is on the line”. However, accomplishing this required the cooperation of every single nation that signed the agreement, and that included the United States. The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Fund is also on the list. In addition, efforts are required to ensure finance to enable the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions by developing countries, the release explained.

Among Trump’s advisers is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a climate change denier tasked with overseeing the Environmental Protection Agency’s transition.

So is it game over for a USA role in battling the climate crisis, at least for the next four years?

In the same interview with reporters, editors and other newspaper officials at the Times headquarters in Manhattan, Trump showed little appetite for pressing investigations of his Democratic rival in the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton, although he did not take the option off the table.

For now, the United States remains involved, with a lame duck delegation from the outgoing Obama administration that helped push through the Paris deal having arrived in Marrakech this week.

The just completed conference on implementation of the Paris agreement in Marrakesh, Morocco, put the world’s dilemma on the subject under the spotlight.

The conference concluded on November 18 with the main thrust to develop rules for operationalising the Paris agreement and advance work on Pre-2020 actions, India said.