The Paris Agreement: Effects Of Climate Changes In The United States
Abstract: The Paris agreement aims to protect the earth from the effects of climate change and the United States is part of this agreement. The government assumes status with environmental issues and how environmental policies are made and the Paris agreement will also be affected by governmental policies through the Unites States, as well. Especially with the new Trump Administration, environmental policies and the agreements with the post-Paris accord are bound to change.
In the United States, there are many threats to the environment to be concerned about, including air pollution and climate change, which potentially cause risk to the public’s health that cannot be fixed through private action on its own. There has been a large amount …show more content…
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would be a big mistake for the American government because staying in the agreement will most likely be costless, but withdrawing will probably provoke outrage from all over the world. It just is not worth it. The US does not have to leave the Paris agreement if the Trump Administration does not want to obligate themselves to make any levels of emissions cuts because the Paris agreement has no major allegations for the Unites States authority and it does not require particular policy balance between environmental and industrial concerns. The Trump administration could just modify the United States’ current pledge to lower its greenhouse gas emissions instead of withdrawing from the Paris agreement altogether. The Trump administration is making a big deal out of nothing and making the Paris agreement seem more complicated than it actually is. It would so much easier for president Trump to just leave former President Obama’s Paris pledge …show more content…
The decline of emissions has been successful so far because during the Obama administration, emissions have decreased by 14 percent between 2005 and 2016, which is halfway towards its goal. The work to decline carbon emissions have been doing a good job, so why should it stop now? President Trump not only wants to withdraw from the Paris agreement, but he wants to get rid of a lot of Obama’s climate plans and environmental protection actions. This would just undo everything that was worked so hard at during the Obama
In the United States, there are many threats to the environment to be concerned about, including air pollution and climate change, which potentially cause risk to the public’s health that cannot be fixed through private action on its own. There has been a large amount …show more content…
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would be a big mistake for the American government because staying in the agreement will most likely be costless, but withdrawing will probably provoke outrage from all over the world. It just is not worth it. The US does not have to leave the Paris agreement if the Trump Administration does not want to obligate themselves to make any levels of emissions cuts because the Paris agreement has no major allegations for the Unites States authority and it does not require particular policy balance between environmental and industrial concerns. The Trump administration could just modify the United States’ current pledge to lower its greenhouse gas emissions instead of withdrawing from the Paris agreement altogether. The Trump administration is making a big deal out of nothing and making the Paris agreement seem more complicated than it actually is. It would so much easier for president Trump to just leave former President Obama’s Paris pledge …show more content…
The decline of emissions has been successful so far because during the Obama administration, emissions have decreased by 14 percent between 2005 and 2016, which is halfway towards its goal. The work to decline carbon emissions have been doing a good job, so why should it stop now? President Trump not only wants to withdraw from the Paris agreement, but he wants to get rid of a lot of Obama’s climate plans and environmental protection actions. This would just undo everything that was worked so hard at during the Obama