Donald Trump would
'cancel' Paris climate deal, 5/27/16, BBC
Republican presidential nominee Donald
Trump has said he would "cancel" the Paris climate deal in his first
major speech on energy policy.
More than
195 countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions in a landmark agreement last
year. The billionaire businessman has
said before there is no evidence that humans are
responsible for climate change.
He called
for more drilling, fewer regulations and the approval of the Keystone XL oil
pipeline from Canada.
"Any
regulation that's outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the
national interest will be scrapped and scrapped completely," Mr Trump
said. "We're going to do all this while taking proper regard for rational
environmental concerns."
Donald Trump's desire to see the end of US
participation in the Paris climate agreement is increasing the pressure for a
rapid ratification around the world.
But that's not easy as the process can often get
bogged down in national parliaments. The Obama administration and others
believe they are well on the way to securing that level of support which they
feel would then make a US withdrawal, in the face of global condemnation, much
less likely. But they could be dead wrong about that.
Mr. Trump though doesn't have to go to such lengths to
end US involvement. He could choose to ignore or reverse or delay Obama's
initiatives on climate including the Clean Power Plan. The real strength of the
Paris agreement is that it comes from the bottom up, countries decide for
themselves what their emissions cutting commitments will be. But this could
also be a huge weakness.
If a President Trump doesn't put emissions cutting
regulations into place, no one could force him to. Would China or India and
others continue to cut their carbon while the US did not? Unlikely.
Before this speech, he had said he would
"renegotiate" the global agreement involving nearly all countries,
but this time he went further and said the US would pull out.
The climate change deal is "bad for US
business" and said the pact allows "foreign bureaucrats control over
how much energy we use". Under the deal, countries set emission limits
themselves, not an outside panel. Mr. Trump has called climate change "a
hoax" devised by the Chinese government. It is uncertain whether Mr Trump,
if elected, could actually make any changes to the deal.
The accord will have legal force once it is ratified
by 55 countries that contribute 55% of global emissions. If the deal is ratified by January, a new American
president would have to wait four years to withdraw from the deal.
While the US is the second-largest greenhouse gas
polluter, it has been instrumental in helping other countries such as India
reduce emissions.
Mr. Trump said on Friday that the US would stop
funding these efforts. Environmental advocates called Mr. Trump's proposals
"frightening". "Trump's energy policies would accelerate climate
change, protect corporate polluters who profit from poisoning our air and
water, and block the transition to clean energy that is necessary to strengthen
our economy and protect our climate and health," Tom Steyer, a billionaire
environmental activist, told Reuters.
On Thursday, he officially became the presidential
nominee for his party, surpassing the 1,238 delegates required.
Comments
This is a
“Big Deal”. I was counting on Trump to make this move. I am one of the millions of conservatives who
has been battling UN Agenda 21 since its inception in 1992.
Now, I
fully expect the Paris Accords to fail and go away. If the UN gives us any
trouble, I think Trump will just quit the UN, close its New York headquarters
and put it back on the tax rolls as a hotel complex.
I expect
Enviro-Marxists to go nuts at this point.
They knew this was coming. The
next shoe to fall is UN Agenda 21 implementation in the US in its
entirety. This will restore the rule of
law and get federal agencies to stop predatory regulatory tyranny on our
farmers and ranchers.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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