[3 things we learned at this week’s U.N. climate change meeting]Trump’s decision leaves the United States alone outside the Paris agreement. While U.S. noncooperation shouldn’t deter other countries from pledging climate action, my recent research with Thijs Van de Graaf shows that it threatens industrialized countries’ promises of climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in poorer countries. The overall Paris framework will probably survive without the United StatesThe basic idea of the Paris agreement is pretty simple. For other industrialized countries, the question is whether they can fill the gap in climate finance that U.S. noncooperation leaves. Trump’s hostility to climate policy poses a threat to future climate cooperation because it threatens to break a promise that industrialized countries made together in the 2015 Paris talks.

Source: Washington Post November 21, 2017 09:56 UTC