Rex Tillerson
Since the results of the elections for the United States presidency, whose winner was Donald Trump, there have been various concerns and controversies about whether The US will leave or remain in the Paris Agreement.
In order to reduce the effects of climate change and improve the stability of the world, It is necessary that the countries that produce the most emissions into the atmosphere, like the US and China, ratify the Paris Agreement. What finally happens to the United States?
Donald Trump at the head of the USA
Donald Trump has been elected as president of the United States and he is a very special man. Consider that climate change It is an invention of the Chinese in order to gain competitiveness. It is based to make such a statement on their own experiences and experiences. He says that in Canada it is snowing and very cold and that, personally, he does not see the effects of climate change.
Faced with such statements, he announced during his candidacy that, if he were president of the United States, he would withdraw all the funds that are destined for actions against the fight against climate change. This it does since for there is no such change and it would allocate that budget in obtaining and improving the efficiency of fossil fuels.
Informational conference on Trump's actions
President Donald Trump's First Informational Conference has been celebrated on January 11. Said conference does not provide any positive element on the policy that it will exercise related to the environmental issue that the White House will carry out as of January 20. That day is when Donald Trump takes office as president.
An encouraging thing for climate policy is that Rex Tillerson, former President of ExxonMobil and future Secretary of State of the United States, has advanced that for the moment, the United States will not abandon the Paris Agreement on climate change. It also deemed important the decision that the United States must continue to participate at the international level in all the treaties and decisions made regarding climate change, as the United States is a world power responsible for almost half of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
“I think it is important for the United States to stay involved. Tackling the threats of climate change it demands a global response. No country can solve that problem alone, ”said Tillerson.
He also added that the fact that the United States remained in the Paris Agreement, which was previously ratified by the Barack Obama administration, was very favorable for the proper maintenance of the planet.
America outlook and a hopeful Tillerson
ExxonMobil was led by Tillerson when the Paris Agreement came into force last November and at that time he had already estimated in a statement that the Paris Agreement was a very important step by governments around the world to be able to respond earlier to serious effects caused by climate change on a global scale.
Given the denial tendencies of the president-elect and some members of his government team, expecting good deeds for the climate and the state of nature is very utopian. However, Tillerson's claim It leaves us some silver lining in this scenario.
It is quite encouraging that Tillerson recognizes that climate change requires global action on the part of the majority of governments that are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In addition, it also gives us hope that he can act advising Donald Trump of the need to continue in the Paris Agreement, since the United States has to be a leader against climate change and honor your international commitments, since it is responsible for almost half of global emissions. Donald Trump must not only keep the United States in the Paris Agreement, but must do so as the potential head of American diplomacy.