The Trump administration has officially submitted a notification to the United Nations to officially begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement in November 2019, following its decision to leave in July 2017. Now, the paperwork has passed and the United States has withdrawn the Paris Agreement until November 4, 2020.
The United States officially withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and left the world’s largest climate change agreement to proceed without a partner on the planet’s second-largest carbon emissions.
This date coincidentally falls on the same day as the U.S. presidential election, although the outcome of the step election will remain the same. It said Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden had promised to rejoin the deal if elected. According to the agreement, no country can issue a notice of withdrawal three years before its start date, which is November 4, 2016, before the United States can leave the United States on November 4, 2020.
The central goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep global rising temperatures from climate change “at 2 degrees Celsius (below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels”, hoping to limit it to just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Of the 195 signatories (194 states and the European Union) that initially signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, 189 have now ratified the agreement. In addition to the United States, other countries that have not completed the formal process are Angola, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, South Sudan, Turkey, and Yemen. It has become a goal to achieve this through each country by teaching greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and then setting rapid and nationally set emissions targets by rapidly reducing them.
“Regardless of the current US administration’s #ParisAgreement, it cannot undo the powerful #climatejustice movement created by the United States and millions of people around the world, empowered by a renewed sense of international solidarity for a secure and just future.” The Climate Action Network tweeted on Wednesday, “The official withdrawal of the United States from #ParisAgreementcame today through a simple tide of public support for urgent and far-reaching measures to end the climate crisis.”
Without the United States, the task of cutting global emissions would be difficult enough to achieve. The United States is the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China, producing about 15 percent of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions.
Trump argued that leaving the deal was a “bad deal” for the United States. Contributions are proportional and for the United States, as one of the richest countries and the largest emitter, it will prove costly. In July 2017, he said: “The bottom line is that the Paris Agreement is extremely unfair to the United States. It is shifting coal jobs abroad. ”
Other studies have shown that working on climate change, rather than ignoring it, could save the world an estimated $20 trillion by 2100. However, several studies cast doubt on the claim that the deal is economically detrimental, especially in the long run. Studies have shown that the economic contribution of climate change – from short life spans to natural disasters such as storms and wildfires – could shrink the global economy by 100 percent by the end of the century if we allow greenhouse gas emissions to continue as normal. China, which accounts for 26 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, has announced that it will work toward carbon neutrality by 2060.
