“And what? Go back to living in the mid-1800s or like I grew up in the 1940s, with no electricity?”Įnergy companies here are hardly uniting behind the calls of environmentalists to keep their reserves in the ground. “I think it’s a fool’s errand to stand up and say by 2030 we’re going to be done with fossil fuels,” Mr. “They basically want to take our wealth away,” Mr. Trump’s position on the Paris agreement was made clear at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference last month when he said the accord would be a “disaster” for the United States. The White House did not respond to a request to comment on Mr. “Politically, morally, there should be leadership by the United States.” There is a normal expectation that the United States takes one-third of the $100 billion,” Mr. is the richest, most powerful, the number one leader country. Former President Barack Obama promised $3 billion over four years and delivered $1 billion before leaving office. Trump has said the Paris agreement is a bad deal for the United States and that the country will no longer work toward its pledge of cutting emissions at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 or contribute money to the climate fund. Countries also pledged to create the Green Climate Fund, mobilizing $100 billion by 2020 from both public funds and private industry to help the poorest nations. Specifically, he asserted, the United States under President Trump needs to change its attitude about the global accord.Īs part of the Paris agreement nearly 200 countries, rich and poor, pledged to cut or curb the greenhouse gas emissions they produce through the burning of fossil fuels or the cutting of forests. “It’s quite clear that the international community must redouble our efforts to implement the Paris climate change agreement,” Mr.
The lifelong diplomat - who recently assumed the presidency of the Global Green Growth Institute, an international organization based in Seoul, South Korea, that focuses on clean energy development - said he hoped to use the next chapter of his career to help poor countries meet their goals under the Paris agreement on climate change. Today that initiative, the Green Climate Fund, is an “empty shell,” Mr. I grabbed the drone, and still have all of my fingers. I could have somehow knocked the drone into the drink, destroying a very expensive reporting tool.
I could have fallen out of the boat while reaching for the drone. I’ll admit to being nervous: I could have ended up with nasty cuts, or worse, from the propellers. “Grab it at the bottom, not the top!” he warned - the sturdy legs of the drone were much safer than the spinning propellers. So, it was up to me to stand at the front as Tim brought the drone gently, carefully, within reach. The craft was so small that Tim worried about trying to land the drone on it. The real challenge came when we went out on Travis Johnson’s fishing skiff for some aerial shots of the bayous near Jean Lafitte. I was in Louisiana for one of the many reporting trips that went into the project, so I took a couple of days out to be Tim’s drone watcher.
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