Auch wenn Trump das Pariser Übereinkommen über den Klimawandel lautstark ablehnt, wird er gezwungen sein, sich der grünen Wirtschaft anzuschließen. Die UN-Technokraten arbeiten fieberhaft daran, den gesamten Planeten gegen uns zu vereinen. ⁃ TN Editor
Die 22nd Der Klimagipfel der Vereinten Nationen begann als eine wackelige, unauffällige Angelegenheit. Nahezu 200-Staaten, die sich endlich einig waren, die Welt vor dem Abbrennen zu bewahren, begannen, das Regelwerk zu schreiben, mit dem die Ziele des 2015-Paris-Abkommens erreicht werden konnten, und suchten gleichzeitig nach den Billionen, die für einen raschen Übergang von fossilen Brennstoffen zu einer Ökonomie für grüne Energie erforderlich sind.
Then things blew up. On the second day of the two-week COP22 conference, American voters elected Republican nominee Donald Trump as president, the guy who calls climate change “a hoax” perpetuated by the Chinese.
Trump didn’t wait to put his hand on the Bible to begin undermining the global environment, along with the will of the international community: he vowed this week to ziehe die USA zurück from its carbon-reduction commitments in the Paris Agreement as quickly as possible. He also recommended an avowed climate denier, Myron Ebell, to head the EPA.
Suddenly, the Marrakesh meeting had a new, and urgent, storyline.
“While progress was made on a number of negotiating issues during this first week of the climate talks here, much of the conversation since has focused on the implications of a Trump presidency,” said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
Am Mittwoch unterstrich Außenminister John Kerry, der maßgeblich an der Aushandlung des Pariser Abkommens beteiligt war, wütend Meyers Aussage: „Dies ist mehr als eine Person, ein Präsident. Wir müssen herausfinden, wie wir diesen [Trumps Plan] stoppen können. Niemand hat das Recht, Entscheidungen zu treffen, die Milliarden von Menschen betreffen, die ausschließlich auf Ideologie oder ohne richtigen Input beruhen. “
Just before Kerry spoke, the US released its first long-term climate plan under the Paris Agreement. It would reduce national emissions by 80 percent by 2050, measured against 2005 levels.
President Barrack Obama’s team — including Secretary of State Kerry — has provided unprecedented leadership in recent climate talks. Two years ago, the US persuaded China to Versprechen to pursue a vastly reduced coal-burning future for its energy needs. China, choking on the smog of its own rapid industrialization, had little choice. This groundbreaking partnership proved to be a game changer.
Als die beiden weltweit führenden Treibhausgasemittenten auf dem UN-Klimagipfel in Lima (Peru) in 2014 eine gemeinsame Basis fanden, stimmte der Rest der Welt schnell überein. Diese gemeinsame Führung ermöglichte im vergangenen Dezember das historische Pariser Abkommen - das erste Mal, dass sich die 195-Staaten darauf einigten, ihre CO2-Emissionen zu reduzieren, um die globale Erwärmung zu verlangsamen. eine Vereinbarung, die Anfang November 2016 und in Rekordzeit in Kraft trat.
China übernimmt Führungsrolle
Now it’s likely — as during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration — that the US will go AWOL, abandoning its international climate change policy leadership role and its responsibilities to the international community and to the planet.
At a COP22 press conference, Jonathan Pershing, the lead US negotiator in Marrakesh, stressed that he knows nothing about Trump’s transition team for climate policy; no one has been in touch.
“What I do know, however, is that [due to] the power of the movement and the enormous momentum created in Paris, and built throughout the year since; [the] parties are deeply invested in seeing this work bear real fruit. It is no longer a question of whether to accelerate the [Paris] Agreement’s implementation, but rather a question of when and how.”
On the same day, at another COP22 press conference, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin dismissed Trump’s assertion that China was behind a climate-change “hoax,” presumably to steal American jobs, as Trump has alleged.
Prior to the US election, Xie Zhenhua, China’s top climate negotiator, also rejected Trump’s “hoax” assertion. He was berichtete sagen, “I believe a wise political leader should take policy stances that conform with global trends. If they resist this trend, I don’t think they’ll win the support of their people, and their country’s economic and social progress will also be affected.”
Die Trump-Kampagne Energieplan ist wohl direkt aus den 1950s hervorgegangen: mehr Öl- und Gaspachtverträge für Bundesländer, mehr Offshore-Bohrungen, mehr Fracking, „Stopp des Krieges gegen Kohle“ und ein Verzicht auf eine WPA-Verordnung, die die Produktion und den Verbrauch fossiler Brennstoffe verlangsamen würde. Dies schließt das Töten von Obamas Clean Energy Act ein. Während die Nationen der Welt daran arbeiten, die CO2-Emissionen zu senken, wird Trump schurkisch und erhöht die Treibhausgasemissionen in den USA.
Look for China to step into the vacuum created by Trump’s failure to lead, observers at COP22 say, in a move that could have far-reaching negative implications for future US foreign policy, and for the US economy.
“China intends to move forward,” Pershing said. “It doesn’t surprise me. The Paris Agreement was struck on the basis of national circumstances and national interests. It serves their development trajectory. I’m hearing the same from the Brazilians and Mexicans, from Canada and from smaller nations like Costa Rica and Colombia.”
More sun and wind, less oil, gas and coal
In COP22 press conferences, panel discussions and multiple interviews, delegates familiar with Trump’s policy proposals stress that the age of fossil fuels — built on antiquated 19th century energy technologies such as coal — is all but over.
Renewable energy sources like wind and solar weiterhin im Preis fallen, thus making fossil fuel investments less practical. Companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron have told their shareholders as much. Banks are paying attention and loaning billions of dollars for renewable energy installations worldwide. Darlehen zur Kohleförderung sind praktisch nicht existent. Recent projections point to a similar, looming economic collapse for the oil industry.
Steve Sawyer, secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council in Belgium, told me he “is horrified, horrified, horrified” at Trump’s election. Then with a wry smile, he added: “79 percent of all wind power installations in the US are in Republican Congressional districts,” such as Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North and South Dakota and Iowa.
Trump is right in his decisions and what he plans to do so he should not back down, back up or take anything back. He needs to continue moving in the direction he is going and not let anything distract him away from the end goal. I will be glad when he is Officially President and I can say that my country finally has a real President which has a great Administration.
Trump is right in his decisions and what he plans to do so he should not back down, back up or take anything back. He needs to continue moving in the direction he is going and not let anything distract him away from the end goal. I will be glad when he is Officially President and I can say that my country finally has a real President which has a great Administration.