Trump pressures other G-20 leaders to weaken climate goals

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By JAKOB HANKE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN 06/28/2019 11:37 PM EDT

OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump is pressuring some of his fellow leaders to help weaken a G-20 commitment on fighting climate change in a move that could kill chances of agreeing on a final leaders’ declaration.

Three senior officials told POLITICO that Trump is trying to enlist the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Australia and Turkey in opposing commitments to stand by the Paris climate agreement made at previous G-20 summits.

The U.S. has refused to back the part of the G-20 declaration that supports the Paris accord since the G-20 summit in Hamburg in 2017, but supported the final communique under an ‘agree to disagree’ arrangement.

But this year, Trump is pushing allies to join him in opposition and French President Emmanuel Macron warned he would rather veto a final communiqué rather than allow the climate change section to be weakened further. Officials said negotiations would go on through the night and would likely be left for the leaders themselves to continue on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/trump-pressures-other-g-20-leaders-to-weaken-climate-goals-1390411

[Tanuki]

1. I hope they tell him to fuck off in no uncertain terms.

Or diplomatically, if they prefer.

[Lulu KC]

11. +1,000

[Freethinker65]

2. Not satisfied with destroying our country, Trump must destroy the entire planet

[dalton99a]

3. The Holy Grail of serial arsonists - burning the whole planet

[underpants]

4. Sounds like we now know what he and Putin talked about

Doesn't matter if it works, Putin just wants to use his boy to throw a monkey wrench into every international organization

[trusty elf]

5. The mask is off of this asshole.

[2naSalit]

6. Yup! ...nt

[mwb970]

7. Our president is pure evil. Sorry, but that's how I see him.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. If I believed in the Anti-Christ Trump would at least be a "person of interest"in that regard. n/t

[murielm99]

15. My brother is firmly convinced that

45 is the anti-Christ.

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. I think there's an underpining element in the evangelical community that wants that

Because it will speed up the Second Coming for them. And they can finally prove to all those doubters, atheists, and Muslims too, that THEY were right all along. If Trump causes WW3, a world war predicted in the Revelations book of the Bible, then its all good.

And in the nature of cults, they can harbor two ideas in their brains at the same time as long as both back up the cults beliefs. Which is why they also believe the opposite. That Trump was sent by God, and is the most Christian President ever in the history of the USA.

[durablend]

21. What they don't realize....

"Because it will speed up the Second Coming for them. "

Is the elevator for them will go DOWN, not up.

[912gdm]

16. welp they have a mark of the beast with those damn red hats

[riversedge]

12. No need to be sorry. You are correct.

[Bayard]

8. WTF?!

If we didn't already know this man was completely insane, we certainly do now.

Nancy--as much as it pains you, this asshole has to be impeached before he destroys the world.

[KPN]

9. Ah shit! I'm getting desperate here. The SCOTUS ruling re: gerrymandering yesterday followed by

this today? We need to take these people out in 2020 or we'll only be left with doing it forcibly. Can we survive another four years of this shit-storm?

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Good luck with Australia, Donny T! The country/continent has been fighting monstrous

brush fires on a regular basis, partially due to climate change.

[riversedge]

14. President Obama: The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement September 3, 2016 ....

Good vs EVIL is all I can think at this moment!




President Obama: The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement


https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/09/03/president-obama-united-states-formally-enters-paris-agreement
September 3, 2016 at 10:41 AM ET by Tanya Somanader

Summary:
Today, the U.S. joined China in taking a major step forward in the global effort to combat climate change.

Last December, more than 190 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the most ambitious climate change agreement in history. In order for the agreement to take effect and enter into force, at least 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions need to formally join the Agreement.

Today, the United States and China deposited with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon their respective instruments to join the Paris Agreement, marking a significant contribution towards the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement.

Today’s action by the United States and China to formally join is a significant step towards entry into force this year with countries representing around 40 percent of global emissions having now joined and more than 55 countries having already joined or publicly committed to work towards joining the agreement this year.
Read the President’s remarks:

[Turbineguy]

18. The answer of course

is that they have longer to live than he does and they won't be spending that time in jail.

[riversedge]

19. The United States was the lone dissenting voice in the final communique, in which 18 countries and t

As G-20 reaffirms fight against climate change, Trump again stands apart

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/as-g-20-reaffirms-fight-against-climate-change-trump-again-stands-apart/2019/06/29/d3d96f22-9a68-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.7ae59ea36843




Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and President Trump march against coal use as Group of 20 leaders met in Osaka, Japan, n June 28, 2019. (Pak Yiu/AFP/Getty Images)

June 29 at 8:56 AM

OSAKA, Japan — Leaders from the Group of 20 nations renewed their vow to take action to curb climate change on Saturday, as the United States once again stood apart and at odds with the rest of the world.

President Trump — who at times appeared not to grasp the difference between global warming and air pollution — dismissed the worldwide push for climate action and denied that any aggressive response to curb the world’s greenhouse gas emissions was necessary.

“We have the cleanest water we have ever had. We have the cleanest air we’ve ever had, but I’m not willing to sacrifice the tremendous power of what we’ve built up over a long period of time and what I’ve enhanced and revived,” Trump told a news conference at the end of the two-day G-20 summit here .

The United States was the lone dissenting voice in the final communique, in which 18 countries and the European Union underlined that the Paris climate accord is irreversible, and reiterated their commitment to its full implementation......................

[BigmanPigman]

20. ITMFA

Impeach The Mother Fucker Already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!