The Paris Agreement marked a crucial turning point in efforts to combat climate change. For the first time, it included specific commitments from all major countries and a way to strengthen national climate action in the coming years. This formal step could be reversed by a future administration after 30 days. President Trump has tried – and fortunately failed – to derail the unity of the world in the fight against climate change. The U.S. contributions come from the State Department`s Economic Support Fund, which has been approved by Congress. It is such a cheap political ploy to claim that support for the most vulnerable nations in the fight against the climate should be opposed to counter-terrorism efforts. America can support both, but not if Trump threatens to cut the budget for the State Department`s efforts on both fronts. What is much more worrisome is how little concern this president cares about crippling the growth of clean energy and efficient employment by deciding on the Paris Agreement and energy regulation. There are great opportunities in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy and grid upgrades that can replace the decommissioned coal fleet while delivering much-needed economic and environmental benefits. According to the latest E2 report, cancelling smart climate policies such as the Clean Power Plan would eliminate opportunities to create 560,000 new jobs and $52 billion in economic growth by 2030. Instead of relying on the best climate science and economics available, the Trump administration and its allies fabricated theirs, creating disinformation and lies to support the exit from Paris. In his official announcement, President Trump`s statements touted a deliberately misleading, industry-funded study on the cost of the Paris Agreement, with hundreds of billions of dollars in public and private investment to be mobilized through numerous institutions for smart climate investments.

Trump falsely and willfully claims that this amounts to a $100 billion “commitment” to the Green Climate Fund. These transparency and accountability provisions are similar to those in other international agreements. While the system does not involve financial sanctions, the requirements are aimed at easily tracking each nation`s progress and fostering a sense of global peer pressure, discouraging any hesitation between countries that might consider this. Now, that future could be in jeopardy as President Donald Trump prepares to withdraw the U.S. from the deal — a decision he can only legally make after the next presidential election — as part of a broader effort to dismantle decades of U.S. environmental policy. Fortunately, municipal, state, economic and civic leaders across the country and around the world are stepping up their efforts to advance the clean energy advances needed to achieve the agreement`s goals and curb dangerous climate change – with or without the Trump administration. This will be part of a dark period of U.S.

engagement in international climate change, as the past four years have been very difficult for the world. These announcements should be the beginning of a national mobilization to advance more ambitious and equitable climate action in the United States, while leveraging the full range of U.S. foreign policy instruments to advance stronger action around the world. The NRDC is working to make the Global Climate Action Summit a success by inspiring more ambitious commitments to the historic 2015 agreement and increased initiatives to reduce pollution. Currently, 197 countries – every nation on earth, the last signatory being war-torn Syria – have adopted the Paris Agreement. Of these, 179 have solidified their climate proposals with formal approval – including the US for now. The only major emitting countries that have not yet officially joined the deal are Russia, Turkey and Iran. There are good reasons why these important decision-makers are more supportive of climate protection. In America, nearly 3.3 million people currently work in clean energy. Last year alone, more than 110,000 new jobs in the clean energy sector were created nationwide. Looking for a glimmer of hope in the UNITED Nations` poignant report on climate change? We can determine the effects of climate change through the political, economic and social choices we make today.

The facts are that while the United States is the largest contributor in absolute dollars, on a per capita basis, the United States. Pledge ranks 11th among the 45 contributing countries, and as a fraction of gross domestic product, the United States ranks 32nd. .