{"id":89734,"date":"2017-04-03T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=89734"},"modified":"2017-04-01T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:08:22","slug":"the-whole-world-is-watching-as-trump-trashes-u-s-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/the-whole-world-is-watching-as-trump-trashes-u-s-climate-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole World Is Watching as Trump Trashes U.S. Climate Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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29 Mar 2017 – <\/em>Amid questions over whether the executive order<\/a> would end U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement<\/a>\u2014and with no firm indication from the White House about staying in the agreement\u2014top European Union climate official Miguel Arias Ca\u00f1ete expressed<\/a> “regret” over Trump’s policies Tuesday, promising that the European Union “will stand by Paris, we will defend Paris and we will implement Paris.”<\/p>\n

China showed it would continue to cement its global leadership on climate<\/a>, as officials reaffirmed to press the country was still committed to the Paris agreement and adding “China’s resolve, aims and policy moves in dealing with climate change will not change.”<\/p>\n

Former United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change leader Christiana Figueres expressed confidence in the agreement’s durability, telling Fusion<\/a> in an interview that the economic benefits of a global clean energy<\/a> transition make the agreement “unstoppable.”<\/p>\n

“It’s important to understand that no single country, no matter how large or small, can cancel the Paris Climate Agreement,” explained Figueres. “The Paris Agreement is a multilateral agreement that has gone into force, and any country has the right to exit the agreement, or in fact to exit the Convention, but that doesn’t mean that the multilateral structure is actually canceled.”<\/p>\n

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Questions over whether Trump\u2019s executive order would end U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement. China showed it would continue to cement its global leadership on climate, as officials reaffirmed the country was still committed to it. “It’s important to understand that no single country, no matter how large or small, can cancel the Paris Climate Agreement.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}