EXPERT REACTION: The US formally withdraws from the Paris Agreement
It has been reported that the US has become the first nation in the world to formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The Trump Administration announced the move in June 2017, but UN regulations meant that his decision only takes effect today, the day after the US election. The US could re-join it in future, should a president choose to do so. The Paris deal was drafted in 2015 to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. It aims to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C.
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Expert Reaction
These comments have been collated by the Science Media Centre to provide a variety of expert perspectives on this issue. Feel free to use these quotes in your stories. Views expressed are the personal opinions of the experts named. They do not represent the views of the SMC or any other organisation unless specifically stated.
Dr Nina Lansbury Hall is Senior Lecturer in Planetary Health, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland and was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6 WGII Australasia chapter)
Associate Professor Donna Green is an environmental scientist at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales
Dr Ifte Ahmed is an Associate Professor in Construction Management/Disaster Resilience at the University of Newcastle