"Donald Trump's latest attack on climate action takes place amid rapidly rising temperatures, rising sea levels, still-rising greenhouse gas emissions, burgeoning costs from extreme weather and the imminent danger that the world will trigger tipping points in the climate system that will lead to catastrophic and irreversible changes. The US president's decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the world's leading body of climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will not alter any of those scientific realities."
"Nor will it do much, at least in the short term, to alter the economic reality that the push to a low-carbon world is proving an engine of growth for scores of countries. Global investment in low-carbon energy now outstrips that in fossil fuels by two to one. Taking over Venezuela's basket-case oil industry will make no perceptible difference. Simon Stiell, the UN's climate chief, said US citizens and companies would bear the impact."
Rapidly rising temperatures, sea levels, greenhouse gas emissions, and mounting costs from extreme weather increase the risk of triggering climate-system tipping points that would cause catastrophic, irreversible changes. US withdrawal from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will not change those scientific realities. The global economy is moving toward low-carbon growth; global investment in low-carbon energy now outstrips fossil-fuel investment two to one. Withdrawal will reduce US influence at COP meetings and IPCC policymaker summaries and will impose higher costs on American households and businesses through pricier energy, food, transport, insurance, and climate-driven damages.
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