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The concern

However, such entreaties are not a sign that these companies or conservative politicians want strong action to combat climate change. Rather, they are worried that the Paris Agreement regime - the specifics of which are to be worked out over the coming four years - will become a main energy and climate forum, one where the US will not have a seat at the table.

There is also concern that a future US president could take the US back into the regime, after having had no say in its early years of development. If this were the case, the concerns of the US fossil fuel industry would not have been represented in that development.

How NGOs react

That Trump may be reconsidering his campaign promise might seem like good news for climate campaigners. But there is a rising sentiment among advocates and policymakers that it may be better to have the US quit the accord than to have a climate-skeptic Trump administration sabotaging it from the inside.

"It's obviously not going to be helpful if the US only stays in to sabotage others from moving forward and developing the rulebook that will be negotiated over the next four-and-a-half years," Kaisa Kosonen, head of global climate policy at Greenpeace, told DW. "Should we try to keep the US in at any price? No, I don't think so."

The International Development

Since Trump's election, the EU has shifted its focus to bilateral cooperation with China on climate. In March, Miguel Arias Cañete - the EU's climate commissioner - visited China to work on an energy roadmap between the Beijing and Brussels.

"The EU and China are joining forces to forge ahead on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and accelerate the global transition to clean energy," the commissioner said during the visit. Wheels will keep turning for ambitious global climate action, was the message.

"In these turbulent times, shared climate leadership is needed more than ever."

More here

http://m.dw.com/en/why-coal-companies-want-trump-to-stay-in-the-paris-climate-pact/a-38344216

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[Kart94]

Just want to say something: Trump was featured in a few Alex Jones stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJqLAleEnKw Here is the proof.

We got a conspiracy theorist as a president........Yay....

 

[Jotaka]

The irony that US will lose influence in the what IS the future of energy because it want to stick with old model is priceless.

 

[Jeels]

We deserve it.

 

[VRMN]

If it's a choice between the future of the planet and continued American dominance in the world, I'll choose a planet my descendents can live on.

 

[Kasumin]

If it's a choice between the future of the planet and continued American dominance in the world, I'll choose a planet my descendents can live on.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The Republican idiots playing their games in Congress right now have no clue just how much they're damaging the future of this country with their fuckery. The rest of the world will just turn to China and leave the US in the dust.

 

[captive]

If this were the case, the concerns of the US fossil fuel industry would not have been represented in that development.

id say this is a good thing.

The fossil fuel industry, unless specifically also making green energy and products(some are), can fuck off.

 

[Electric Eye]

The world is moving forward with or without America leading. It's a massive blunder by Trump and shows again how they have no Idea what they are doing. The whole point at the beginning of making a case to lower fossil fuel emissions was to drag big polluters like China and India into the fold and to do so countries like the US did so by example proving that it was possible and necessary to get away from oil and coal etc. fast forward to an entire new world headed into a cleaner direction with China and this orange clown comes in to try and dismantle the gains however signing EOs to reverse regulations and wanting to pull out of accords it's too late everyone else is already headed forward and Trump practically wrote the playbook for the Chinese and handed them the keys.

 

[OfTheOverflow]

It just blows my mind how the 'leader of the Western world' is allowed by the people to effectively annihilate the planet. Think a cheeky revolution is in order, long past time.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

The world is moving forward with or without America leading. It's a massive blunder by Trump and shows again how they have no Idea what they are doing. The whole point at the beginning of making a case to lower fossil fuel emissions was to drag big polluters like China and India into the fold and to do so countries like the US did so by example proving that it was possible and necessary to get away from oil and coal etc. fast forward to an entire new world headed into a cleaner direction with China and this orange clown comes in to try and dismantle the gains however signing EOs to reverse regulations and wanting to pull out of accords it's too late everyone else is already headed forward and Trump practically wrote the playbook for the Chinese and handed them the keys.

Even some states and cities are doing a better job going renewable than the Federal Government right now.

 

[wisdom0wl]

Good.

 

[Dead Man]

The irony that US will lose influence in the what IS the future of energy because it want to stick with old model is priceless.

Indeed.

 

[mr2xxx]

Good, we don't deserve a seat. If our official policy is fuck the environment then what would we even offer besides being a distraction.

 

[RobotHaus]

Couldn't have said it better myself. The Republican idiots playing their games in Congress right now have no clue just how much they're damaging the future of this country with their fuckery. The rest of the world will just turn to China and leave the US in the dust.

I think they have a clue but they don't really care. Why should they? All the damage will apply once they've been placed 6 feet under.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

There is also concern that a future US president could take the US back into the regime, after having had no say in its early years of development. If this were the case, the concerns of the US fossil fuel industry would not have been represented in that development.

You financed for years, if not decades, candidates that denied evidence for man-made climate change. This is what you fucking deserve. All your money amounting to fucking nothing in the long run (even if damage has been great).

 

[Stinkles]

"We want to be evil, but sneaky evil, not clumsy twitter racist evil."

 

[titiklabingapat]

The election of Trump was a clear signal that Americans do not want to lead the world into the future anymore. They want to cling to what it was in the past.

 

[Loxley]

The election of Trump was a clear signal that Americans do not want to lead the world into the future anymore. They want to cling to what it was in the past.

Well, half of the country does :/

 

[Linkark07]

If it's a choice between the future of the planet and continued American dominance in the world, I'll choose a planet my descendents can live on.

This. This so much. If a country prefers to protect the fossil fuel industry instead of protecting the planet and all its inhabitants, they can stay in the past and become nothing in the future.

 

[lastplayed]

The election of Trump was a clear signal that Americans do not want to lead the world into the future anymore. They want to cling to what it was in the past.

And we thought Britain took losing its empire hard. The US will take anyone it can cling to down with it.

 

[Slayven]

People don't want to deal with a unpredictable mad man, shocking......