Posted on 06/07/2017 1:23:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. But it will take more than one speech to pull out: Under the rules of the deal, which the White House says it will follow, the earliest any country can leave is Nov. 4, 2020. That means the United States will remain a party to the accord for nearly all of Mr. Trump’s current term, and it could still try to influence the climate talks during that span.
So the next four years will be a busy time for climate policy. Mr. Trump’s aides plan to keep working to dismantle domestic climate programs like the Clean Power Plan. And the world’s nations will meet regularly to hash out details of the Paris agreement, even as the United States’ exit looms. Here is what comes next.
November 2017
Negotiators for 195 nations will meet in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how to carry out the Paris agreement. Every country has already submitted an initial pledge for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. But officials now have to write rules for monitoring and verifying those pledges.
Technically, the United States is still the co-chair of a key committee on transparency measures. In the past, American officials have taken a keen interest in this topic, pushing for robust oversight of emissions. By contrast, countries like China have argued for looser scrutiny for developing nations.
“The question is whether the Trump administration still shows up for those discussions,” said Andrew Light, a senior climate change adviser at the State Department under President Barack Obama. “If they really are pushing to ‘renegotiate’ the deal, as they say, I don’t see why they wouldn’t go.”
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Are we, or are we not, a sovereign nation?.
As has been mentioned already, no enforcement mechanism in the Accord, so no reason to do anything about the goals. Plus, the Accord wasn’t ratified anyway, so there’s question as to whether the US is even a party to the Accord.
More Graveyard Whistling from the Slimes.
How does this make sense? Obie didn’t get the approval of Congress. It’s not binding. Screw them.
It’s a “nonbinding” agreement
And we are not going to cripple our fossil fuel industry to meet goals no one else is close to reaching
Nor is the UN is any position to DEMAND we pay into a climate slush fund
The accord wasn’t Constitutionally legal to begin with, so the 2020 date is a moot subject.
Watch us, Europe.
Or else what? Double secret probation?
The Senate should have thought of all this before they ratified it. Oh, yeah, that’s right, they didn’t ratify it.
But they'll get it eventually...
Just watch.
B/S. When was this treaty ratified by the senate?
“Under the rules of the deal, which the White House says it will follow, the earliest any country can leave is Nov. 4, 2020.”
Seems to me that this is the operative question. Trump needs to say publicly if he indeed plans to wait 4 years to leave. And the collateral question should be will the US put in any money during the exiting process?
Why?!
BS. Cut the cash flow to Zer0, immedidetaly.
Says who?
We are out.
They can say we’re part of the club, but we have quit participating.
Fake News New York Times can fantasize all they want...they can even imagine Hitlery is in the White House.
Game over.
Period. Full stop.
It’s all the liberal papers and Governors.
They can’t stop saying “deal”.
Well, the deal is this, we are out.
How many divisions do the environmentalist wacjobs have?
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