The United States are officially back Friday in theparis agreement. Almost four years after Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States, it is the return of the world’s largest economy and the second largest emitter of C02 behind China. Now, almost all the countries of the planet are stakeholders in theagreement signed in 2015.
Joe Biden had announced this return for a long time. “We can no longer push back or do the bare minimum to meet the climate change« Joe Biden insisted at the White House on Friday.
« This is a global existential crisis. And we will all suffer the consequences ”, he added. The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken also assured in a statement that ” climate change and diplomacy through science ” could no longer ” never be optional additions ” in foreign policy discussions.
« Answer to real threats from climate change and listening to our scientists is at the heart of our domestic and foreign priorities. It is (an aspect) vital in our discussions on national security, migration, international health measures, and in our economic diplomacy and trade negotiations ”, also indicated the secretary of state.
Praising theparis agreement, negotiated by former President Barack Obama, he further assured that the climate diplomacy which was announced would be crucial.
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John Kerry calls for strengthening climate ambition
Former Secretary of State and former White House candidate John Kerry, now emissary of the United States for the climate, for its part called on the States of the planet to increase their climate ambitions at the UN summit in Glasgow (Scotland), which will take place in November.
« I think we have to stop using the words climate change, and admit that it is now a climate crisis ”said Kerry, speaking at a virtual UN event to mark the return of the United States to the agreement. « We join the international climate efforts with humility, knowing that we have wasted four years in which America was no longer at the table ” negotiations, he added. ” But also with ambition, knowing that (the agreement of) Paris alone will not do what science tells us to do.«
Before Glasgow, Joe Biden planned to hold another climate summit, April 22, for Earth Day. The US president has pledged to achieve 100% carbon-free energy by 2035 and carbon neutrality by 2050.
Source : AFP
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