{"id":35980,"date":"2025-01-22T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=35980"},"modified":"2025-01-22T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:25:19","slug":"us-withdrew-from-paris-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-01-2025\/us-withdrew-from-paris-agreement","title":{"rendered":"US Withdrew from the Paris Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/ Foreign Affairs, GS3\/Environment and Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>US President Donald Trump decided to <strong>withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement again<\/strong> \u2014 having first done so in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On his first day in office, Trump also ordered an immediate revocation of all climate finance commitments made by the US.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He has promised to reverse some of the climate-friendly energy policies of the last few years, and reiterated his commitment to extracting more oil and gas to meet America\u2019s energy requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Background:&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump\u2019s predecessor (and successor)&nbsp; Joe Biden had taken the US back into the Paris Agreement in 2021.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The US had not become a party to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as well, having refused to ratify it after signing on to it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reasons for the Trump&#8217;s Policy:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He opined that the international regulations on climate change have been unfair to the US because similar restrictions are not placed on China, on account of it being classified as a developing country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Paris Agreement<\/strong><br>&#8211; It is a <strong>legally binding international treaty<\/strong> on climate change, adopted in <strong>2015<\/strong>, at the <strong>COP21<\/strong> to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).<br>&#8211; It aims to <strong>limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius<\/strong> above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; The Paris Agreement emphasizes<strong> nationally determined contributions (NDCs)<\/strong> and encourages all countries to take climate action.<br>1. Countries must <strong>review and update their NDCs every five years<\/strong> to enhance their efforts and increase ambition over time.<br>&#8211; <strong>Article 28 of the Paris Agreement <\/strong>lays out the procedure and timeline for a country\u2019s withdrawal from the treaty.<br>1. Any time after three years from the date on which this Agreement has entered into force for a Party, that Party may withdraw from this Agreement by giving written notification.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Implications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emission Targets:<\/strong> US has set the target to reduce its emissions by 50-52% by 2030 (from 2005 levels) and by 62-66% by 2035.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As of now, the US is not on track to meet its 2030 emissions goal \u2014 and four years of Trump will make it almost certain that these are not achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Second Largest Emittor: <\/strong>The US is the world\u2019s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. The objective of the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved without its full participation in the common effort to reduce emissions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Increase in Fossil fuel Production: <\/strong>Trump has been explicit about drilling new oil wells and gas fields this time, as a result fossil fuel production could rise in the next four years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Funding of Climate Finance:<\/strong> It will further squeeze in funds available for climate action for the developing countries.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The US has the greatest influence on mobilising private and international finance, Trump\u2019s policies could see this source drying up as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Impact on other countries: <\/strong>Experts fear other countries, especially China, could use it as an excuse to ease off their own efforts to curb carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Global Warming:<\/strong> The world is now long-term 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 degrees Celsius) above mid-1800s temperatures.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Global temperatures last year passed the warming mark of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was the warmest year on record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>US Share in Global Warming:<\/strong> According to the Global Carbon Project, the U.S. is responsible for nearly 22% of the carbon dioxide put in the atmosphere since 1950.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The US has the largest share of historical emissions, and therefore also the greatest responsibility to clean up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The wildfires in Los Angeles are the latest reminder that Americans, like everyone else, are affected by worsening climate change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>America could stay focused on growing the clean energy industry and technologies for driving down energy costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/why-donald-trumps-paris-agreement-pullout-could-have-worse-consequences-than-in-2017-9792071\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement again \u2014 having first done so in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35989,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions\/35989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}