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US hoping for development in climate negotiations with India
Washington, Jan 22, 2015, PTI:
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The United States is hoping to make significant progress in climate negotiations with India ahead of a major UN conference taking place later this year in Paris, a senior White House official has said.
"President Barack Obama will have a chance to review with Prime Minister Narendra Modi what the US is committed to doing, what India is considering doing in this space...and how we can work together to bring about a successful conclusion to the (climate) negotiations," US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters.

India is a very important player for arriving at any successful international climate negotiation, he said adding, "We literally cannot achieve our objectives without cooperation from India."

"You cannot achieve a successful international climate agreement through the Paris negotiations if the major emitters are not coming to the table with ambitious programs. The United States, China and India are at the front of that line," Rhodes said.

He lauded the initiatives of the Modi government to attain its ambitious objectives of improved public health and clean energy.

Asked if India was under pressure to deliver on climate change after the US-China agreement on climate change inked during Obama's journey to Beijing.

"The pressure comes from the reality of climate change. Every country should feel that urgency. We want every country to be ambitious. There's no such thing as a successful agreement unless all the major emitters are doing their part," Rhodes said.

"In terms of our bilateral relationship, the cooperation on clean energy and climate change is critically important because the US and India are working together to develop clean energy sources and also because of the international climate negotiations that are leading into Paris this year," he said.
 
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/en...se-official/article18682975.ece?homepage=true
TRUMPCLIMATE

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on May 18, 2017. A White House official says President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. | Photo Credit: AP


Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed doubts about climate change, at times calling it a hoax to weaken U.S. industry.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a White House official said on Wednesday, confirming a move certain to anger allies that spent years negotiating the landmark agreement to reduce carbon emissions.

But there may be “caveats in the language” that Mr. Trump uses to announce the withdrawal, leaving open the possibility that the decision isn’t final, according to the official, who insisted on anonymity in order to discuss the decision before the official announcement.

Mr. Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning: “I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama’s administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change. Withdrawing would leave the United States aligned only with Russia among the world’s industrialised economies in rejecting action to combat climate change.

During Mr. Trump’s overseas trip last week, European leaders pressed him to keep the U.S. in the pact.


Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed doubts about climate change, at times calling it a hoax to weaken U.S. industry. An overwhelming majority of scientists, however, say climate change is driven by human use of fossil fuels.

Word of Mr. Trump’s decision comes a day after the President met with Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Like his boss, Mr. Pruitt has questioned the consensus of climate scientists that the Earth is warming and that man-made climate emissions are to blame.

Since taking office, Mr. Trump and Mr. Pruitt have moved to delay or roll back federal regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions while pledging to revive the long-struggling U.S. coal mines.

What is not yet clear is whether Mr. Trump plans to initiate a formal withdrawal from the Paris accord, which under the terms of the agreement could take three years, or exit the underlying U.N. climate change treaty on which the accord was based.

The U.S. is the world’s second largest emitter of carbon, following only China. Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently cancelling construction of about 100 coal-fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

Mr. Trump had vowed during his campaign to “cancel” the Paris deal within 100 days of becoming President, as part of an effort to bolster U.S. oil and coal industries. That promise helped rally supporters sharing his scepticism of global efforts to police U.S. carbon emissions.

After taking office, however, Mr. Trump faced pressure to stay in the deal from investors, international powers and business leaders, including some in the coal industry. He also had to navigate a split among his advisers on the issue.

Mr. Trump’s aides including Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, lawyer Don McGahn and Peter Navarro, along with Mr. Pruitt, argued hard for leaving the accord. They said the deal would require the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which would hurt business.

Mr. Trump’s administration has already begun the process of killing Obama-era climate regulations.

The “stay-in” camp, which included Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka, chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, had argued the United States could reduce its voluntary emission-cuts targets while still keeping a voice within the accord.

Oil majors Shell and Exxon Mobil have also supported the Paris pact, along with a number of Republican lawmakers. Several big coal companies, including Cloud Peak Energy, had publicly urged Trump to stay in the deal as a way to help protect the industry’s mining interests overseas, though others asked Trump to exit the accord to help ease regulatory pressures on domestic miners.
 
I'm truly impressed by India's performance in its renewable energy accomplishments. She far surpassed her international commitments. Modi has ambitious targets as far as renewable is concerned and the performance is not bad at all.
 
I'm truly impressed by India's performance in its renewable energy accomplishments. She far surpassed her international commitments. Modi has ambitious targets as far as renewable is concerned and the performance is not bad at all.
Climate change is a hoax and they'd been milking us dry under successive bush and obongo admins.

Trump pulling out of the Paris accord will be the best thing ever for both India and China, and indeed for most of the developing world.

They're probably trying furiously to make Trump see how the US profits off of pushing this scam on India etc.

He'll play along is he sees value, let's hope he doesn't.
 
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/en...s-to-adhere-to-paris-pact/article18700767.ece

Urges other nations to do likewise; EU leader Tusk exhorts Trump to stay in deal.
China will “steadfastly” implement the Paris climate pact, Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday, urging others to do likewise as U.S. President Donald Trump was due to announce whether he would keep Washington in the deal.

“China will continue to implement promises made in the Paris Agreement, to move towards the 2030 goal step by step steadfastly,” Mr. Li said in a Berlin joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“But of course, we also hope to do this in cooperation with others,” he added.

China has been investing billions in clean energy infrastructure, as its leaders seek to clear up the notorious choking pollution enveloping its biggest cities, including Beijing.

Mr. Li stressed that it was in China’s own interest to stick to the climate deal.

“Once China’s development reaches a certain level, it has to move to a sustainable model, that means we have to push green development,” he said.


Kremlin’s reaction

The withdrawal of key players from the Paris climate deal would “complicate” implementation of the pact, the Kremlin said.

“For sure the effectiveness of the implementation of this convention without key players will be complicated, but there are no alternatives to it at the moment,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Meanwhile, European Council President Donald Tusk made a personal appeal to Mr. Trump not to pull Washington out of the Paris climate agreement.

Mr. Tusk warned Mr. Trump on Twitter against such a move as he prepared to host an EU-China summit on Friday designed to fill the void on climate if the U.S. withdraws from the pact.

Mr. Tusk will join Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Executive European Commission, in meeting the Chinese Prime Minister at the summit on Friday.
 
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