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The Trump Effect = UN COP FLOP! 100 Countries Stall On 'Climate Targets' Ahead 
Of COP30 

As Trump Is Pushing World Leaders To Abandon The Climate Fight


E&E News excerpt: Trump, who has eviscerated climate measures in the U.S. 
while urging, and threatening, other nations to abandon the fight against 
climbing temperatures. Two weeks before climate talks begin in Brazil, the 
lapse by more than 100 countries in submitting new United Nations plans for 
tackling global warming is colliding with rising enmity by President Donald 
Trump, who has eviscerated climate measures in the U.S. while urging, and 
threatening, other nations to abandon the fight against climbing temperatures.

The EU is struggling to fill the vacuum left by America's reversal on global 
climate cooperation. And China, while pledging to cut its world-leading carbon 
pollution, has announced a target that analysts say is too low to prevent 
catastrophic climate impacts.

The COP30 climate conference in the Amazon port city of Belém is facing 
perhaps the biggest political pushback since negotiations started 30 years 
ago,

... 

Trump is not the only challenge. Energy demand is soaring globally, 
complicating the transition away from fossil fuels, while political divisions 
and the high cost of goods are shaking Europe's commitment to tackle climate 
change.

The clearest warning sign is captured in the raft of pledges that countries 
have so far failed to submit to the United Nations. The first deadline passed 
in February. Then another in September. Fewer than 70 nations, out of 195, 
have now offered new climate targets. (The U.S. rushed its in last year before 
Biden left office.)

By SARA SCHONHARDT

E&E News excerpt: Dozens of nations have failed to strengthen their climate 
targets - a requirement of the Paris Agreement - as they race toward global 
negotiations next month with planet-warming pollution on the rise.

Two weeks before climate talks begin in Brazil, the lapse by more than 100 
countries in submitting new United Nations plans for tackling global warming 
is colliding with rising enmity by President Donald Trump, who has eviscerated 
climate measures in the U.S. while urging, and threatening, other nations to 
abandon the fight against climbing temperatures.

The EU is struggling to fill the vacuum left by America's reversal on global 
climate cooperation. And China, while pledging to cut its world-leading carbon 
pollution, has announced a target that analysts say is too low to prevent 
catastrophic climate impacts.

The COP30 climate conference in the Amazon port city of Belém is facing 
perhaps the biggest political pushback since negotiations started 30 years 
ago, with the Trump administration openly working to undermine measures aimed 
at reducing climate pollution from cargo ships and other sources.

"The rest of the world knows they have to deal with Trump, and they're trying 
to figure out, particularly in this sphere, how do you make progress when he's 
driving so hard in the opposite direction of where everyone else wants to 
go," said John Podesta, who served as senior adviser for international climate 
policy under President Joe Biden.

Trump is not the only challenge. Energy demand is soaring globally, 
complicating the transition away from fossil fuels, while political divisions 
and the high cost of goods are shaking Europe's commitment to tackle climate 
change.

The clearest warning sign is captured in the raft of pledges that countries 
have so far failed to submit to the United Nations. The first deadline passed 
in February. Then another in September. Fewer than 70 nations, out of 195, 
have now offered new climate targets. (The U.S. rushed its in last year before 
Biden left office.)

The pledges, known as a Nationally Determined Contribution, offer a snapshot 
into how governments plan to lower their greenhouse gas pollution over the 
next 10 years. With just a fraction of nations submitting them, they offer an 
incomplete picture of global momentum toward holding temperatures below 1.5 
degrees Celsius, the stretch goal of the Paris Agreement.

"It's not really surprising to me that countries are saying, you know, why 
would I put our country on the hook for some big and ambitious set of actions 
that would be hard on a good day," said Jonathan Elkind, former assistant 
secretary for international affairs at the Department of Energy, referring to 
the uncertainty created by the U.S. reversing course.

Instead, he looked to the future for action.

"The real issue is can we sustain over time - and I mean over decades - 
attention and focus and creativity and capital, capital, capital, given that 
there will be economic upturns and downturns, wars and pandemics," he said.

So far, no other countries have followed Trump's move to leave the Paris 
Agreement, the 2015 pact that requires nations to submit regular carbon-
cutting plans.

But other nations did bend to U.S. pressure earlier this month when Trump 
threatened to impose tariffs on countries that supported what would have been 
the world's first carbon tax on shipping. The vote was delayed a year in 
response. That move drove the EU into a temporary impasse on its COP30 
negotiating position last week.

 

... 

A U.N. climate summit in New York last month was meant to spur countries to 
announce new emission-cutting plans for 2035 ahead of COP30. Under the Paris 
Agreement, they're required to update their targets every five years.

Some climate advocates viewed the presence of more than 100 countries there as 
a signal that nations remain committed to tackling global warming, despite 
Trump's calls for them to abandon their efforts. The United Kingdom, Japan and 
Brazil have all submitted stronger targets, and Ursula von der Leyen, 
president of the European Commission, said the EU would submit one before 
COP30.

But fractures were also revealed. India, the world's third-largest climate 
polluter, didn't show up. And 10 nations in the Group of 20, the largest 
economies that account for three-fourths of global emissions, have not offered 
new targets.

The likelihood is low that several of those nations will meet their 2030 
targets. A recent study found that Japan, India and the U.S. have no chance of 
meeting their NDCs, based on current progress.

... 

Altogether, 62 countries have submitted new carbon-cutting plans through 2035, 
according to the World Resources Institute.

That does not include China's pledge to cut its emissions 7-10 percent from an 
undefined peak, since it was announced but not submitted. The U.S. goal 
submitted under Biden sought to cut emissions 61-66 percent compared to 2005 
levels. Some of that could be achieved through state-led action, but it's 
likely irrelevant because the U.S. will officially exit the Paris pact in 
January.

... 
China factor

The refrain around China is that its pledges don't always align with reality. 
The world's largest emitter dominates clean energy generation globally, and 
its investments in electricity sources like wind and solar have led to lower 
costs in the developing world.


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