Trump signs an order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement again

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will once again withdraw the United States from the historic Paris climate agreement, which deals a strong blow to him. Global efforts To combat global warming and once again distance the United States from its closest allies.

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A. also signed A series of executive actions After his inauguration, Trump said: “I am immediately withdrawing from the unfair and biased Paris climate agreements.” He also signed a letter informing the United Nations of his decision.

The agreement aims to Reducing global warming in the long term to 2.7°F (1.5°C) above pre-industrial levels, or, failing that, maintain temperatures at least well below 3.6°F (2°C) above pre-industrial levels. The United States is one of the highest in the world Carbon pollution Nations.

The 2015 Paris Agreement is voluntary and allows countries to submit targets for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases from burning coal, oil and natural gas. These targets are set to become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline to draw up new individual plans.

The outgoing Biden administration last month Presented a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States By more than 60% by 2035.

Lawrence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a key architect of the Paris Agreement, called the planned US withdrawal regrettable, but said action to slow climate change was “stronger than the politics and policies of any single country.”

Tubiana said that the global context of Trump’s move “is very different from 2017,” adding that “there is unstoppable economic momentum behind the global transformation, from which the United States and its leaders have gained but now risk losing.”

The International Energy Agency expects the global market for key clean energy technologies to triple to more than $2 trillion by 2035, she said.

“The impacts of the climate crisis are also worsening Terrible forest fires “The events in Los Angeles are the latest reminder that Americans, like everyone else, are being affected by worsening climate change,” Tubiana said.

Gina McCarthy, who served as a White House climate adviser under Democratic President Joe Biden, said that if Trump, a Republican, “really wants America to lead the global economy, become energy independent, and create good-paying American jobs,” then he does. . We must “continue to focus on growing our clean energy industry. Clean technologies are lowering energy costs for people across our country.”

The world is now 2.3°F (1.3°C) higher than its mid-19th century temperatures. Most, but not all, climate monitoring agencies said global temperatures last year surpassed the 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit warming mark, and all said it was the warmest year on record.

Without deeper cuts over the next few years, the world is on track to see a temperature increase of more than 3 degrees Celsius, according to a report released in October. United Nations reportwhich warned that such an outcome “would lead to devastating impacts on people, planet and economies.”

The process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement takes one year. Trump’s previous withdrawal took effect the day after the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Biden.

While it was the first Trump-led withdrawal from… United Nations historic agreement “No country has followed the United States out the door,” said Alden Meyer, a longtime climate negotiations analyst at the European think tank E3G.

Instead, other countries have renewed their commitment to slowing climate change, along with investors, companies, governors, mayors and others in the United States, Mayer and other experts said.

However, they lamented that the United States has lost leadership in global efforts to slow climate change, even as the world is on track for another record hot year, swinging from drought to hurricanes to floods to wildfires.

“It is clear that America will not play the leadership role in helping solve the climate crisis, the greatest dilemma humans have ever faced,” said climate activist and writer Bill McKibben. “The best we can hope for over the next few years is that Washington will not be able to sabotage the efforts of others.”

About half of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” oppose U.S. action to withdraw from the climate agreement, and even Republicans do not overwhelmingly support, according to reconnaissance From The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only about 2 in 10 American adults “somewhat” or “strongly” support withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, while about a quarter are neutral.

Much of the opposition to US withdrawal comes from Democrats, but Republicans show some ambivalence as well. Slightly less than half of Republicans support withdrawing from the climate agreement, while about 2 in 10 oppose it.

Several years ago, China overtook the United States as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide annually. The United States — the second-largest annual carbon polluter — put 4.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air in 2023, down 11% from the previous decade, according to scientists tracking emissions for the Global Carbon Project.

but carbon dioxide It persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so the United States has used more of the heat-trapping gas now in the air than any other country. The United States is responsible for nearly 22% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1950, according to the Global Carbon Project.

While global efforts to combat climate change continued during Trump’s first term, many experts worry that a second Trump term will be more damaging, with the United States withdrawing further from climate efforts in a way that could cripple the efforts of future presidents. With Trump, who has rejected climate change, taking charge of the world’s leading economy, these experts fear that other countries, especially China, will use it as an excuse to ease their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

Simon Steele, Executive Secretary for Climate Change at the United Nations, expressed hope that the United States would continue to embrace the global clean energy boom.

“Ignoring them only sends all this enormous wealth to competing economies, while climate disasters like drought, wildfires and superstorms get worse,” Steele said. “The door remains open to the Paris Agreement, and we welcome constructive participation from any and all countries.”