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"Trump's coming back to power is a major bad news for climate response"...Increased greenhouse gas emissions by 4 billion tons?

2024.11.07 PM 03:20
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The response to the global climate crisis is also expected to take a toll as former U.S. President Trump succeeds in retaking power.

In particular, the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) scheduled for next week is also being shadowed.One of the main agendas of COP29, dubbed the

{World's Most Important Climate Talks', is to create new climate finance goals to help developing countries build green energy systems and adapt to warming.

However, it is analyzed that such a target agreement will not be easy due to Trump's return to power.

A climate negotiator from the G20 said in an interview with the Financial Times that "the situation is getting harder."

Trump denies the climate crisis theory and advocates unlimited production of fossil energy.

During his first term in office, he withdrew more than 100 environmental regulations, including all major climate regulations of his predecessor Barack Obama.

It also withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement, which 195 countries agreed to slow climate change.

Even during the campaign, Trump's camp has vowed to withdraw from the Paris Agreement again if it returns to power.

It also called the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) a "new green fraud," and said it would discard it after being elected and take back all of the budget it has not yet executed.

In particular, they expressed negative views on subsidizing electric vehicles in the form of tax credits to encourage clean energy investment.

This position was welcomed by the fossil fuel industry.

"The long national nightmare of the Green New Deal is finally over," the fossil fuel advocacy group Power the Future said in a statement after Trump's victory. "I hope this will be a warning to other politicians who think the green agenda is more important than their families."

However, it is analyzed that greenhouse gas emissions will increase when Trump implements his policies.

The climate analysis site Carbon Brief predicted that Trump's policy to encourage oil and gas drilling would increase greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere by 4 billion tons.

However, some predict that it is not easy to discard the IRA as Trump's allies benefit from it.



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