Posted on 12/31/2018 10:15:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite being lauded by President Obama for signing the Paris U.N. climate change accord, China is still rapidly expanding greenhouse gas emissions.
President Obama and China's President Xi Jinping issued a "U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change" on March 31, 2016 stating that both nations were signing the Paris Accord and would take further "concrete steps" to "use public resources to finance and encourage the transition toward low carbon technologies as a priority." The joint statement on climate change was trumpeted as creating "an enduring legacy of partnership."
President Obama's "concrete steps" for the U.S. to combat climate change included issuing an executive order "Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change," directing the Environmental Protection Agency to cut 32 percent of power plant carbon emissions by 2025, mandating higher vehicle mileage, substantially limiting oil and gas drilling on public lands, and requiring energy-efficient building codes.
The Heritage Foundation estimated that if the Paris Accord Obama signed were fully implemented, it would have achieved a 0.36-degree Fahrenheit reduction in global temperatures. But the economic costs of Obama's Paris commitments over the next 20 years would have included the loss of $2.5 trillion in GDP, 400,000 jobs, over $20,000 less income per family of four, and about 17 percent higher electricity prices.
The Paris Accord also commits so-called "advanced nations" to providing $100 billion in "Green Climate Fund" subsidies for reparations to developing countries to fund infrastructure improvements. With the U.S. share already set at about $22 billion, Obama's "Joint Presidential Statement" committed the U.S. to increasing climate change subsidies.
Despite already being the planet's largest contributor of greenhouse emissions at 22 percent, China was required by the Paris Accord to curtail emissions' growth only by 2030.
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China and India, the world’s two biggest polluters, are exempt.
As Chinese American I start to love my home country, a lot. They get along with the world very well. Whatever you want China to sign, they will sign it. Paris accord; migration pact and you name it. They just don’t implement any of it. They are the loudest globalization supporter. The trick is they never allow migration, the border and custom are water tight. I went back home last year and love it very much. Yes there are some small crimes like scam or pocket pickers and such but every city a girl can walk in the street ANY TIME. They don’t know what armed robbery or mugging or sexul attack is. Our people never catcall on females. Now the streets are cleaner and transportation system and highways are the world class and travel is at east as easy as in US. Food are better and no franchise food. Each place has its own delicacies. No blacks everywhere. Many magnificent ancient sites.... I really enjoy my home country
Everybody knows Asians are allowed to emit more pollution, it would be racist to hold them down to the same levels as Euro-descended/Majority White countries... this too is part and parcel with Climate Justus. ;)
So, since you love it so much, are you living there now?
I’m planning
Treaties with liars bind only one side, it’s just like trying to placate a snowflakes ever growing list of offences.
Bump!
Well, the real China is HongKong or Taiwan, but what do I know from a system which repressed all traditions so much that accupuncture was seen as a blight like Falun Gong and nowdays mainland chinese had to relearn it from experts in Canada.
China is nice as fascist or Nazi germany was nice in the beginning, repressing communists now.
China’s long range goal is create a gold standard and recreate the conditions of gold and Yuan hoarding as the French did causing the world crash of the 30s and world war.
You go to machiavellian China, you will be bound and indebted as a slaves into its bloody adventures.
Peace will be a joke.
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