By adopting to keep away from Paris Climate Accord, the Trump Administration has joined handful of nations who are against providing a safe and secure environment. The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created. A year and a half ago, the world came together in Paris around the first-ever global agreement to set the world on a low-carbon course and protect the future. And for the nations that committed themselves to that future, the Paris Agreement opened the floodgates for businesses, scientists, and engineers to unleash high-tech, low-carbon investment and innovation on an unprecedented scale. Other nations look forward to America in leading with technology and innovations. US is not only the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, but also one the major current emitters and any action to combat climate change will be “insufficient” by a huge margin without the US’ active contribution. The US decision to keep away was leading to a shift in global geopolitics with China and the EU already positioning themselves to take the lead in climate action. The US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, saying the deal agreed by more than 190 nations unfairly benefited countries like India and China whereas the objective of the Paris Agreement is to prevent an increase in global average temperature and keep it well below 2 degree C. The agreement was adopted on 12th December, 2015 by 195 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), replacing its predecessor Kyoto Protocol. It was finally ratified on 4th November, 2016. US withdrawal is seen harmful for the climate pact would be seen as a move to hold the world at ransom. The global impact would be catastrophic as under its climate action plan, the US had pledged merely 26-28 per cent emission reduction below 2005 levels by 2025. The world wants the US to do its fair share, but while we wait for sanity to be restored in the US, other countries must accelerate their path to decarbonisation.
