According to diplomatic sources refused to the united states to sign the Arctic council in the joint declaration because it contained references to a scientific report on the climate crisis as well as to the paris agreement. Trump refuses to admit to it whatsoever would be a climate change – extreme weather comes and goes and has nothing with global warming to make. He does not believe in science the alarm, not even the report that was produced by the u.s. government.
– the united states announced back in the spring of 2017, the country intends to leave the paris agreement. On the way to Finland, where the Arctic council meeting, said foreign minister Pompeo to Parisavalet still is toothless and full of flowery language. Even if Trumpregeringen would accept the reality and take klimatforskarnas findings, it is not certain that it would have endorsed the declaration. In the foreign policy Trump that explicit goal to oppose multilateral agreements because he perceives these to disadvantage american business and industrial interests. Trump finds a particular satisfaction in to undermine the international agreements to which was added with the help of Obama, so that the paris agreement.
Instead of warn for klimatkrisens consequences in the Arctic – which is warmer than the 120 year – focused Pompeo on China and Russia and these countries ‘ military and geopolitical interests in the region, which the united states finds threatening. Pompeo provoked the council by portraying the Arctic as a place of possibilities and abundance,” and specifically mentioned the region’s oil and gas properties. The melting of the ice in his eyes a possibility of increased trade, as a new shipping route opened up between Asia and the west. This approach is reminiscent of Trumpregeringens action in the united states, which consistently rolled back green regulation that the Obama government pushed through the protection of sensitive natural areas, including from gas and oil extraction. Trumpregeringen take consistent corporate perspective at the expense of the environment.
– the Growing frustration from the young political movement that sees the climate crisis as their core issue. Next week completes the congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez its ”Green New Deal Tour” – a petition for a major american environmental policy – with a protest rally at Howard university in Washington DC, an afro-american universities with heavy political history. The movement has the goal to drastically reduce emissions. Mittenorienterade democratic politicians worry that too radical promises to scare away conservative voters for the presidential election in 2020 and result in a rebound in the style of the one in France. At the same time has mittenpolitikerna surrendered themselves to certain promises: both Joe Biden, the middle leaders and Beto O’rourke has promised not to accept campaign contributions from utsläppsindustrin.
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