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| Paris climate agreement: Trump said to be pulling US out of global pact – live | |
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| David Smith | |
| Guardian Washington correspondent David Smith is in the Rose Garden, where “a band is playing bouncy, upbeat jazz”: | |
| “I hear the unmistakable notes of ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy’ (orchestral only, no singer). Strangely apt for global warming.” | |
| Update: dig the bass: | |
| They're playing smooth jazz in the Rose Garden ahead of the president's announcement on the Paris climate accord pic.twitter.com/bPt34W1HP5 | |
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| Reuters and the Washington Post are quoting from a document said to be Trump’s upcoming speech. They have this: | |
| Trump to say decision to withdraw ‘is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first’ | |
| Trump to say Paris climate agreement ‘front loads costs on American people’ - document | |
| Trump to say that the accord was bad, negotiated poorly by Obama administration and signed out of desperation. | |
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| The scene: | |
| Rose Garden being set up for Pres Trump's announcement withdrawing US from Paris Agreement on climate change. pic.twitter.com/51C0YQZTWl | |
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| Trump to withdraw from Paris – AP | |
| The Associated Press now has it: | |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — @AP sources: Trump will announce plans to withdraw from #Paris #climatechange accord | |
| Jon Ralston, the dean of Nevada politics journalists, makes this joke for the LAST TIME Please | |
| I guess we won't always have Paris. https://t.co/TkEgYtTRDG | |
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| Follow Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org (and Guardian contributor): | |
| Somehow appropriate that oil started flowing through the Dakota pipeline today. Greed uber ales #NoDAPL https://t.co/1LrExNtYSo | |
| 7.35pm BST | |
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| About right. | |
| Me: Cancel 3pm callHim: Why?Me: Want to see Paris Accord FinaleHim: Is Trump giving a 🌹?Me: He's producing & starring, playing the thorn | |
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| Trump tells Congress he's pulling plug on Paris – reports | |
| The Daily Beast and CNN are carrying reports that Trump has told congressional staffers on a conference call that he’s withdrawing from the Paris accord. | |
| Here’s the Beast: | |
| On a conference call with Capitol Hill staffers ahead of the speech, White House energy policy adviser Michael Catanzaro confirmed that “the United States is getting out of the Paris agreement.” Trump, Catanzaro said, “will be open to and will immediately be looking for a better deal.” A source provided The Daily Beast with the call-in information. | |
| Here’s CNN’s Jake Tapper: | |
| Capitol Hill source tells @acosta the White House has informed the Hill that President Trump is pulling out of the Paris agreement | |
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| World urges Trump not to dump Paris deal | |
| Damian Carrington | |
| World leaders, businesses, investors, scientists and development charities have joined in urging Donald Trump not to withdraw the US from the Paris climate change agreement. | |
| The US president is due to announce his decision at 3pm ET on Thursday and is expected to pull the world’s largest economy, and second greatest polluter, from the global accord agreed unanimously by almost 200 nations in 2015. | |
| The agreement to fight global warming is based on voluntary pledges to cut greenhouse emissions but Trump has argued this could damage the US economy. However, a huge range of US business leaders argue the opposite, saying the fast-growing green economy is an opportunity for the US. | |
| Read further: | |
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| Note: we’ll embed live video provided by the White House in this blog when the big moment approaches. The video stream, currently inactive, is here. | |
| Of all issues, is there any one more ill-suited to Trump’s reality TV production aesthetic, which prizes moments of grandiose revelation, than climate change? A generational issue that will be with us no matter what happens with this afternoon’s presidential curtain-drop. | |
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| Jean Chemnick of E&E News (Environment & Energy publishing) says Myron Ebell, chairman of a group “focused on dispelling the myths of global warming,” will be in the crowd with Trump at the White House today: | Jean Chemnick of E&E News (Environment & Energy publishing) says Myron Ebell, chairman of a group “focused on dispelling the myths of global warming,” will be in the crowd with Trump at the White House today: |
| Myron Ebell is reportedly going to be in the Rose Garden for Trump's Paris announcement -- so we're out. | Myron Ebell is reportedly going to be in the Rose Garden for Trump's Paris announcement -- so we're out. |
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| US would join Nicaragua and Syria as Paris dissenters | US would join Nicaragua and Syria as Paris dissenters |
| Haroon Siddique | Haroon Siddique |
| Assuming the US does, as expected, pull out of the historic Paris agreement on climate change, it will join a very small list of countries with which it has little else in common in terms of emissions. | Assuming the US does, as expected, pull out of the historic Paris agreement on climate change, it will join a very small list of countries with which it has little else in common in terms of emissions. |
| The only other UN members not signed up are Nicaragua and Syria, which both chose not to enter into the climate accord in the first place. | The only other UN members not signed up are Nicaragua and Syria, which both chose not to enter into the climate accord in the first place. |
| Their reasons for doing so were very different from those that seem to be influencing Donald Trump, who has previously described climate change as a hoax. | Their reasons for doing so were very different from those that seem to be influencing Donald Trump, who has previously described climate change as a hoax. |
| Nicaragua’ declined to sign up because it thought the accord did not go far enough. In November 2015, Paul Oquist, Nicaragua’s lead envoy to the Paris negotiations, told Climate Home: “We’re not going to submit because voluntary responsibility is a path to failure. We don’t want to be an accomplice to taking the world to 3 to 4 degrees and the death and destruction that represents.” | Nicaragua’ declined to sign up because it thought the accord did not go far enough. In November 2015, Paul Oquist, Nicaragua’s lead envoy to the Paris negotiations, told Climate Home: “We’re not going to submit because voluntary responsibility is a path to failure. We don’t want to be an accomplice to taking the world to 3 to 4 degrees and the death and destruction that represents.” |
| Read further: | Read further: |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live coverage of Donald Trump’s announcement of whether he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. | Hello, and welcome to our live coverage of Donald Trump’s announcement of whether he will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. |
| The president is playing up his decision for maximum | The president is playing up his decision for maximum |
| political | political |
| theatrical effect, having teased it for a couple days now. The big reveal is scheduled for 3pm ET (8pm BST) in the White House rose garden. | theatrical effect, having teased it for a couple days now. The big reveal is scheduled for 3pm ET (8pm BST) in the White House rose garden. |
| I will be announcing my decision on Paris Accord, Thursday at 3:00 P.M. The White House Rose Garden. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! | I will be announcing my decision on Paris Accord, Thursday at 3:00 P.M. The White House Rose Garden. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! |
| It must be said that Trump is expected to ditch the deal. Elected Republicans whom he needs to advance his domestic agenda want him to. His top political strategist reportedly wants him to. And a narrow majority of Republican voters favors erasing environmental regulations, according to Quinnipiac polling. | It must be said that Trump is expected to ditch the deal. Elected Republicans whom he needs to advance his domestic agenda want him to. His top political strategist reportedly wants him to. And a narrow majority of Republican voters favors erasing environmental regulations, according to Quinnipiac polling. |
| What is the Paris agreement? | What is the Paris agreement? |
| It’s a climate change accord agreed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015, which came into force on 4 November 2016. The agreement commits world leaders to keeping global warming below 2C (3.6F), seen as the threshold for safety by scientists, and pursuing a tougher target of 1.5C (2.7F). The carbon emission curbs put forward by countries under Paris are not legally binding but the framework of the accord, which includes a mechanism for periodically cranking those pledges up, is binding. The agreement also has a long-term goal for net zero emissions which would effectively phase out fossil fuels. | It’s a climate change accord agreed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015, which came into force on 4 November 2016. The agreement commits world leaders to keeping global warming below 2C (3.6F), seen as the threshold for safety by scientists, and pursuing a tougher target of 1.5C (2.7F). The carbon emission curbs put forward by countries under Paris are not legally binding but the framework of the accord, which includes a mechanism for periodically cranking those pledges up, is binding. The agreement also has a long-term goal for net zero emissions which would effectively phase out fossil fuels. |
| What happens if the US withdraws? | What happens if the US withdraws? |
| The Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison writes: | The Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison writes: |
| The US is not bound to any targets by the Paris accord, and is already moving away from Barack Obama’s commitment to cut emissions. It will continue to do so regardless of whether it remains part of the global deal. | The US is not bound to any targets by the Paris accord, and is already moving away from Barack Obama’s commitment to cut emissions. It will continue to do so regardless of whether it remains part of the global deal. |
| There are fears that formal withdrawal could dent the soft-power impact of the agreement. But other major emitters including the European Union and China point out that the US would be as free to rejoin as it is to leave. | There are fears that formal withdrawal could dent the soft-power impact of the agreement. But other major emitters including the European Union and China point out that the US would be as free to rejoin as it is to leave. |
| The EU and China have vowed that their commitment to tackling climate change will not be affected by the US decision. | The EU and China have vowed that their commitment to tackling climate change will not be affected by the US decision. |
| While we wait for Trump, here’s a selection of our latest coverage of his decision: | While we wait for Trump, here’s a selection of our latest coverage of his decision: |
| Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 7.01pm BST | at 7.01pm BST |