Current Events > trump wants g20 leaders to stop caring about climate change

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https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-pressures-other-g20-leaders-to-weaken-climate-goals
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Garbage-ass fucking president
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This fucking idiot is really gonna screw the whole world over
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trump bolsonaro mbs & edrogan will be real life captain planet villains
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It's a nonbinding agreement that everyone is failing to achieve that puts less pressure on the biggest culprits than it does nations producing relatively little pollution.

https://www.climate-transparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BROWN_TO_GREEN_REPORT_web_low.pdf

If everyone is so pissed that Trump is trying to lower the targets, maybe they should meet their own once before saying it's a bad idea.

https://cei.org/blog/report-finds-all-european-union-countries-failing-paris-climate-targets

CANEurope (Climate Action Network Europe) released a report this month that finds that all 28 member nations of the European Union are failing to meet the solemn obligations they undertook in ratifying the Paris climate treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The report begins: The ranking shows that all EU countries are off target: they are failing to increase their climate action in line with the Paris Agreement goal. No single EU country is performing sufficiently in both ambition and progress in reducing carbon emissions. Countries can and must to do more to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Sweden achieved the highest grade of 77%, with Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg scoring between 66 and 56. At the bottom of the rankings were Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, and Poland, which was dead last at only 16.

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This is why he has been kissing up to them, I guess putin helped him to hatch this plan or ordered him to carry it out.
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better to try and fail than scrap the whole thing
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s0nicfan posted...

It's a nonbinding agreement that everyone is failing to achieve that puts less pressure on the biggest culprits than it does nations producing relatively little pollution.

https://www.climate-transparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BROWN_TO_GREEN_REPORT_web_low.pdf

If everyone is so pissed that Trump is trying to lower the targets, maybe they should meet their own once before saying it's a bad idea.

https://cei.org/blog/report-finds-all-european-union-countries-failing-paris-climate-targets

CANEurope (Climate Action Network Europe) released a report this month that finds that all 28 member nations of the European Union are failing to meet the solemn obligations they undertook in ratifying the Paris climate treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The report begins: The ranking shows that all EU countries are off target: they are failing to increase their climate action in line with the Paris Agreement goal. No single EU country is performing sufficiently in both ambition and progress in reducing carbon emissions. Countries can and must to do more to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Sweden achieved the highest grade of 77%, with Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg scoring between 66 and 56. At the bottom of the rankings were Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, and Poland, which was dead last at only 16.

Weakening the goal obviously isn't the answer, the goal is set so it can be worked toward because its vital in the health of the planet. The health of the planet failing isn't changing because people weaken to goal. That's like saying we should just run 5 miles of a 10 mile race because everyone is just too tired to do the 10.
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Bluebomber182 posted...

better to try and fail than scrap the whole thing

Don't get me wrong... I support the spirit of it, but the current implementation leaves much to be desired, and it's a bit hypocritical for anyone to get angry at Trump for wanting to change numbers that nobody has yet succeeded in achieving. It's also worth nothing it would only be scrapped if the other countries like Germany/France refuse to accept the changes:

But this year, Trump is pushing allies to join him in opposition and French President Emmanuel Macron warned he would rather veto a final communiqu rather than allow the climate change section to be weakened further. Officials said negotiations would go on through the night and would likely be left for the leaders themselves to continue on Saturday.

So if they would rather scrap the whole thing than accept weakened targets when NONE OF THEM have once hit their own targets, I'd call that playing politics not seriously pushing for fighting climate change.
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s0nicfan posted...

Don't get me wrong... I support the spirit of it, but the current implementation leaves much to be desired, and it's a bit hypocritical for anyone to get angry at Trump for wanting to change numbers that nobody has yet succeeded in achieving. It's also worth nothing it would only be scrapped if the other countries like Germany/France refuse to accept the changes:
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Yea cause I mean he's doing everything else right, so why not just give him a break. His slogan is make america great again not make all the other countries great. Fuck the world climate change isn't real etc. so why not change the "goals". Besides he wants to pull out of the accords which will really help weaken the goals.
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