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On Wednesday, the United States’ formal withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, announced by Donald Trump a year ago, went into effect. Joe Biden has announced that he will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement if he wins the election. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has ordered a reduction in Russian emissions.
With this gesture, Donald Trump was referring to the magnitude of the temperature increase when he announced on June 1, 2017 that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
(dpa)
The day after the presidential election, the United States officially withdrew from the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement. The climate protectors and the German government lamented the step taken by President Donald Trump a year earlier. For international climate policy, this is “extremely regrettable,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in Berlin on Wednesday. It remains “even more important” that the EU and Germany “lead by example”.
The termination went into effect Wednesday at midnight New York time, as the United Nations Secretariat for Climate Change had previously said, exactly four years after the landmark agreement negotiated in Paris in 2015 to limit climate change took effect. climate change, and one year after the formal one. Resignation of the United States government. The United States is the first and so far only country to abandon the climate agreement. They have the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world after China, with significantly fewer inhabitants.
Reduce emissions in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered greenhouse gas emissions to be lowered to 70 percent of 1990 levels to curb climate change. According to the ruling, the goal should be reached by 2030. The largest area on earth is feeling the consequences of climate change not only through the thawing of permafrost soils, but also through annual temperature records, massive forest fires and floods. Putin also ordered the government to draw up a strategy for climate-neutral social and economic development in Russia by 2050.
The goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit climate change to well below two degrees. Certain implementation details are still being negotiated, but generally the rules are in place. So far, states’ plans to save greenhouse gases are still far from sufficient to meet the two-degree goal. The consequences of the climate crisis can already be felt around the world, including rising sea levels, an increased risk of droughts, heat waves, severe storms and floods, but also the melting of glaciers and ice in the poles or the death of coral reefs.
The UN climate secretariat announced along with some states that it was taking note of the US exit “with regret” and that it would continue to work with all US stakeholders and partners to promote climate protection more quickly.
Trump has cut environmental protection
US President Donald Trump has reversed many political guidelines on protecting the climate and the environment since taking office in January 2017. Trump’s challenger Joe Biden, on the other hand, announced that he would rejoin the Accord Paris Climate Change and would anchor the goal of making the American economy climate neutral by 2050, meaning the bottom line is that no additional greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere. The European Union also wants to become climate neutral by 2050.
Government spokesman Seibert recalled Germany’s commitment to become climate neutral by 2050, as well as the corresponding European Union plan and the ongoing debate on tightening the climate protection target by 2030. Many countries are currently on the road to an economy. more climate-friendly, he said. . That also applies to many US states, cities, towns, businesses, and organizations.
The US exit is a “setback, but not the end of global climate policy,” said FDP climate expert Lukas Köhler. Left-wing politician Lorenz Gösta Beutin spoke of a “political-climate super-disaster.” Green politician Lisa Badum said the exit was a “bitter loss and the result of a policy driven by nationalism, selfishness and denial of science.”
