The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Today, Syria announced that it would sign the Paris climate agreement -- a landmark deal that commits almost 200 countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to fight global warming. With Nicaragua also joining the deal last month, the United States is now the only country in the world that opposes it. In June, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, unless it is renegotiated to be "fair" to the United States. But other countries in the deal, such as France, Germany, and Italy, said that's not possible. The Trump administration is also taking steps to roll back regulations passed under former President Barack Obama to achieve the emissions reduction goals set under the Paris deal. The U.S. is the second largest emitter of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the world after China. "With Syria's decision, the relentless commitment of the global community to deliver on Paris is more evident than ever," Paula Caballero, director of the climate change program at the World Resources Institute, told the Times. "The U.S.'s stark isolation should give Trump reason to reconsider his ill-advised announcement and join the rest of the world in tackling climate change."

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The US does not need to do anything

[sit1963nz]

However the 96% of the worlds population outside the USA may decide buying US made goods is a bad thing for the environment.

Feel free to quit all the trade agreements you have, build as many walls as you like, there rest of the world will learn to carry on without you.

Its 100% your choice to leave.... HOWEVER its 100% OUR choice to let you back in and it will be on OUR terms, not yours.

Re:So why didn't Obama submit it to the Senate?

[whoever57]

Which make pulling out of it a move that the rest of the world will see as a giant "Fuck You!"

If it's not binding, then it cannot possibly harm the USA.

The only reason for this is to mug for a few coal miners and an even smaller number of mine owners.

Re:Good

[MMC Monster]

Does anyone believe that a single policy will stop global climate change?

The Paris Climate Accord was a step in the right direction. If Trump wants to say he's taking a different step in that direction, fantastic. On the other hand, if he's saying that climate change is a Chinese conspiracy (or a normal fluctuation, or due to solar flares, etc.), that's another matter.

Ob XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732/