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Saturday, June 3, 2017
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MANILA – “Unfortunate” was how Senate climate change panel chief Sen. Loren Legarda described US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
The international agreement on climate change, which limits the temperature increase to only two degrees Celsius, is “very unfair at the highest level to the United States,” according to Trump.
Legarda was among those instrumental in securing the ratification of the Paris agreement on climate change.
“(Trump’s) decision reeks of ignorance and condemns US foreign policy into infamy. It is truly a sad day, but we are not hopeless,” said Legarda.
The American president believes the climate pact undermines the American economy.
“As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, this agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining financial advantage over the United States,” said Trump.
He, however, promised to “sit down with the Democrats and all of the people representing the Paris accord” to create an agreement “much better” than the 2015 climate deal.
The Paris accord is meant to limit the global rise in temperature attributed to emissions.
Countries agreed to:
* Keep global temperatures “well below” the level of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times and “endeavour to limit” them even more, to 1.5 degrees Celsius
* Limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100
* Review each country’s contribution to cutting emissions every five years so they scale up to the challenge
* Enable rich countries to help poorer nations by providing “climate finance” to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy./PN
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