“Trump likely to withdraw from Paris Agreement” ‥ Emergency response to global climate crisis

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President-elect Trump is expected to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, an international agreement to prevent global warming, immediately after taking office.

The entire planet’s response to the climate crisis has also become unavoidable.

This is Correspondent Lim Kyung-ah from New York.

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Trump claims the climate crisis is a ‘fiction.’

With this belief, in the first year of taking power, he announced his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.

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“To fulfill my solemn obligation to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.”

The Paris Agreement is an international agreement in which all countries agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

President Biden later rejoined the group immediately after taking office in 2021, but President-elect Trump is expected to withdraw again.

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration’s transition team included withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in an executive order to be implemented immediately after taking office.

The people leading this are former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler.

They are former oil and coal industry lobbyists, respectively.

Trump’s second term is also discussing creating a new ‘energy director’ position to lead the expansion of fossil energy production and moving the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., out of the capital.

Climate analysis site ‘Carbon Brief’ analyzed that US greenhouse gas emissions will increase by an additional 4 billion tons by 2030 due to Trump’s election.

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“I keep thinking about how intertwined these measures are with the air and water we breathe and the hundreds of thousands of people who still die from pollution from cars and coal power plants.”

This year is expected to be recorded as the hottest year in observational history.

There are calls to agree on more decisive measures to reduce greenhouse gases at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting next week, but many political leaders and businesspeople have already announced their intention to not attend before and after Trump’s election.

This is Lim Kyung-ah from MBC News in New York.

Video coverage: Ahn Jeong-gyu (New York) / Video editing: Lee Jeong-seop

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