Paris Climate Agreement

Despite the European Union (EU) saying just eight months ago it would not sign any trade agreements with countries not party to the Paris climate treaty—a pledge aimed particularly at the United States after President Donald Trump started the process of withdrawing from the agreement—it seems the EU has reconsidered its stance. Climate Home News is reporting the EU is in the process of negotiating two trade agreements with the United States.

Concerning the Paris climate agreement, the relevant question is, not who still supports it and will actually meet their greenhouse gas reduction commitments, rather it is what country will be next out the door.

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.”

Barely two years into the Paris climate agreement and it is falling apart as countries jockey for a position of competitive economic advantage, and claimed moral superiority. 

An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17.

Earlier we looked at how the lefty New York Times, a green press role model, misdescribed what the Bonn climate summit was going to be about.

Leaving aside the unconstitutional character of states signing onto an international agreement that has been repudiated by President Trump, there are major practical problems with all of this.

States that claim they’re committed to Paris do nothing for the climate and ill serve their citizens.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attended the G7 Environment Minister’s Summit in Bologna, Italy, making it clear the U.S. takes a backseat to no country in protecting the environment, but making it equally clear, the Paris climate agreement was neither the only way nor even a good way to protect the environment and thus the U.S.  was withdrawing from the treaty.

By withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump may have avoided myriad legal efforts to force the administration to restrict fossil fuel development and use in the United States.

President Trump kept his campaign promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, but the fight for withdrawal was a difficult one.

A consortium of medical societies is echoing former President Obama’s dire warning that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world and public health.

The final step will be UN-CLEXIT – withdrawal from all UN climate agreements and obligations, and defunding the government climate “research” and propaganda industry.