Posted on 11/21/2016 6:51:20 AM PST by rktman
As climate negotiators work out the details of the Paris Agreement on global warming in Marrakech, Morocco, the question on everyones 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.
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In other words all these deals are only as good as Hussain’s word.
“If you like your deal, you can keep your deal, period.”
The UN, Iran etc can sue him (Hussain) personally if things don’t work out.
Exactly.
The Senate never ratified it, therefore it was never in force to begin with.
Or bypass all the hoopla and ignore the entire circus. No attendance. No $$$$$. No acknowledgement of it whatsoever.
What is journalism coming to? There's entirely too much verbiage in this. The author must be getting paid by the word. That can be made so much shorter ...
"Withdraw from the United Nations."
There ... see? Simple and elegantly to the point ...
Absolutely agree!
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