{"id":171158,"date":"2024-11-08T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/donald-trump-is-likely-to-scale-back-americas-climate-targets-will-other-countries-follow-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T23:55:09","slug":"donald-trump-is-likely-to-scale-back-americas-climate-targets-will-other-countries-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/donald-trump-is-likely-to-scale-back-americas-climate-targets-will-other-countries-follow-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is likely to scale back America’s climate targets – will other countries follow suit?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”.<\/p>\n

Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US<\/a><\/strong> from the global climate process, couldn’t be worse.<\/p>\n

Next year is forecast to exceed 1.5 degrees of warming for the first time – something the Paris Agreement<\/a><\/strong> is designed to prevent from becoming the norm.<\/p>\n

Despite that and nearly 30 years of talks, man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising.<\/p>\n

Yet just a handful of nations have committed to cut them enough to prevent close to three degrees of warming by the end of the century.<\/p>\n

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So does America’s sudden departure, at this most precarious of moments, spell disaster?<\/p>\n

Under previous administrations, the US was a major diplomatic force at the talks – brokering significant concessions from more recalcitrant states, including the world’s largest polluter, China<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It also set ambition, adopting carbon-cutting pledges and domestic policies like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that sent a powerful message to others that if the US saw a future beyond fossil fuels, everyone could.<\/p>\n

As the largest shareholder in the World Bank, the US was also seen as key to brokering a new deal to finance the green transition in poorer countries: the main objective of the COP29<\/a><\/strong> talks in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

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Now, although its negotiating team heading to Baku still serves President Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong>‘s agenda, it has lost its diplomatic leverage. In less than three months, they will all be out of a job.<\/p>\n

Will the departure of the US galvanise other leaders – threatened by increasingly right-leaning electorates at home – to scale back their ambition too?<\/p>\n

Or even follow its lead and ditch the “woke” jamboree of school-shy teenagers, indigenous groups and NGOs some have long perceived the UN climate talks to be?<\/p>\n

Not likely – at least according to Jonathan Pershing, former president Barack Obama<\/a><\/strong>‘s then-climate envoy.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump tried to reverse US climate policies when he last won control of the White House and it didn’t come to much, argues Mr Pershing.<\/p>\n

“Even with the shock, not a single other country followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris Agreement,” he says. “I don’t think anyone will this time either.”<\/p>\n

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His optimism stems from the fact the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement can ignore climate realities, but not economic ones.<\/p>\n

Despite a campaign slogan of “Trump Digs Coal,” more coal-fired power plants closed under Mr Trump’s last administration, for example, than under the climate-friendly one of Mr Obama.<\/p>\n

Alternatives to fossil fuels, like wind and solar power, are increasing in popularity and decreasing in price, a trend forecast to continue.<\/p>\n

This is the case even more so among America’s competitors like China which, according to Mr Pershing, saw 40% of its GDP last year come from shifting to clean technologies.<\/p>\n

“The idea that they would forego that growth just because the US has withdrawn seems not only implausible but highly, highly, unlikely,” he said.<\/p>\n

That may be the analysis from COP insiders. However, international agreements have long lagged behind the urgency of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

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The talks about to start in Baku were supposed to accelerate action.<\/p>\n

Instead, negotiators will arrive knowing that 72 million Americans voted for Mr Trump. It’s unlikely his denial of climate change was a major factor in their decision – but nor was it enough to deter them.<\/p>\n

His administration’s plans may turn out to be just another bump along the road towards an inevitable zero-carbon future.<\/p>\n

But any climate scientist will tell you that even the slightest delay on that journey is disastrous – and more than half of America just signalled it has no interest in going faster.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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