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I can see the snowflakes crying in their safespace when they read this:
As climate negotiators work out the details of the Paris Agreement on global warming in Marrakech, Morocco, the question on everyone’s minds is: What will the Trump administration do?
The president-elect has expressed skepticism about the Paris Agreement, and for good reason. American households and businesses will incur [1] higher energy costs and a weaker economy while seeing meaningful change in global temperatures.
Here are three steps the new administration should take to unwind Paris:
1. Withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 1992, United Nations member states attended the Conference on Environment and Development. More commonly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the meeting led to the signing of the framework convention.
The purpose of the framework convention is to stabilize man-made greenhouse gas emissions to prevent [2] “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” This widespread international approach has been costly, ineffective, and unworkable.
Article 25 [3] of the framework convention says that any party can withdraw from the convention three years after the framework has entered into force by submitting a written notice [3] to the depositary. The depositary is the secretary-general of the United Nations.
Doing this would withdraw the U.S. from any protocol to which it is a party (including Paris) and would enter into force one year after the depositary receives the notification of withdrawal.
The president-elect has expressed skepticism about the Paris Agreement, and for good reason. American households and businesses will incur [1] higher energy costs and a weaker economy while seeing meaningful change in global temperatures.
Here are three steps the new administration should take to unwind Paris:
1. Withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 1992, United Nations member states attended the Conference on Environment and Development. More commonly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the meeting led to the signing of the framework convention.
The purpose of the framework convention is to stabilize man-made greenhouse gas emissions to prevent [2] “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” This widespread international approach has been costly, ineffective, and unworkable.
Article 25 [3] of the framework convention says that any party can withdraw from the convention three years after the framework has entered into force by submitting a written notice [3] to the depositary. The depositary is the secretary-general of the United Nations.
Doing this would withdraw the U.S. from any protocol to which it is a party (including Paris) and would enter into force one year after the depositary receives the notification of withdrawal.
