The Paris Agreement Ten Years On Is A House of Cards Ready for the Toppling

Headline of the day!

"... The US provides approximately 22% of the UNFCCC secretariat’s budget, with the body’s operating costs projected at $96.5m for 2024-2025. Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg will reportedly step in to replace the funding that the US government will pull out of the secretariat’s budget. ...

The “Trump effect” is already derailing the prospects of future UN negotiations over the Paris climate agreement. Indonesia, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gases emitters, cast doubt on the Paris agreement after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the global climate accord. Hashim Djojohadikusumo, the Indonesian climate and energy envoy, said at a conference last week, “If the US, which is currently the second-biggest polluter after China, refuses to comply with the international agreement, why should countries like Indonesia comply?” ...

President Javier Milei revealed in an interview published last week that he is “analysing whether to withdraw Argentina from the Paris Climate Agreement.” He denounced the Paris climate agreement as a “fraud of cultural Marxism.” Mr. Milei’s outspoken views on climate change were already well expressed before he had assumed presidency. He called the expressed concerns of politicians regarding climate catastrophe as “another socialist lie” and avowedly rejected the Paris climate agreement."

Caveat: I did not read the entire article.

The Paris Agreement Ten Years On Is A House of Cards Ready for the Toppling - Clintel "The ‘Trump effect’ is already derailing the prospects of future UN negotiations over the Paris climate agreement, says economist dr. Tilak Doshi. The Paris agreement is now a house of cards."

"A reasonably informed layperson in the audience would have whipped out the following chart to challenge it. To the naked unjaundiced eye, the annual UN climate jamborees have not made one whit of a difference."