Mainstream WeeklyOn 20th January evening , soon after his swearing in ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an order to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and immediately dispatched a letter to the United Nations explaining his decision.
This is a very unfortunate decision especially 2024, the very first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit. This would potentially impacts all efforts to tackle the rising temperatures, stall threatening global warming that is challenging the survival of life on this planet.
This decision comes after global temperatures in 2024 rose more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in a calendar year. As a consequence of global warming unprecedented heavy rains, floods, landslides in India, Europe, devastating wild fires in California, droughts and submergence of small island nations became a regular feature.
The Paris Agreement, 2015, is the document that drives global co-operation to limit the causes of global warming. It strengths the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), initially agreed to by all 195 countries, including the United States then under presidency of Barack Obama. Everyone agrees to the fact that Climate change is caused principally by the burning of fossil fuels. These fuels are consumed by Capital