will Trump go it alone again regarding the Paris climate accord?

Although for a long while, many experts around the world have warned that the most urgent future threat for the globe is climate change, it seems that the US President Donald Trump has stuck to a different opinion. With the probability of the US’ exit from the Paris accord grows high, Trump’s stubborn attitude toward the issue has caused a new international concern.

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Tabnak – Although for a long while, many experts around the world have warned that the most urgent future threat for the globe is climate change, it seems that the US President Donald Trump has stuck to a different opinion. With the probability of the US’ exit from the Paris accord grows high, Trump’s stubborn attitude toward the issue has caused a new international concern.

The President of the United States says he will announce today whether the US will remain in the Paris climate accord. This is while, a story published in the news just yesterday, saying that Trump had made his final decision regarding the accord and wanted to declare that the US would no longer be a party of the accord.

This is while, according to "The Hill”, Pulling the United States out of the Paris climate deal would have unforeseen consequences for Trump, his international agenda and US climate policy.

In fact, it would leave the US, with its permanent claims of being the world superpower, outside an accord meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that includes nearly every other country in the world, aside from Syria and Nicaragua.

In a separate report, Reuters writes that scientists have said a US withdrawal from the deal could speed up the effects of global climate change, leading to heat waves, floods, droughts, and more frequent violent storms.

During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump blasted the accord, saying it would cost the US economy trillions of dollars with no tangible benefit. The Republican vowed at the time to "cancel" the Paris deal within 100 days of becoming president on Jan. 20, part of an effort to bolster US oil and coal industries.

The ongoing debate within the Trump administration over whether to leave the Paris deal, has become the subject of media fascination, intense corporate lobbying, and international vertigo. The agreement itself, negotiated in late December of 2015 and championed by the Obama administration, presents a rare case of near-total global unanimity.

However, reacting to the possibility of US withdrawal from the agreement, European Union leaders and China vowed Thursday to push forward with the Paris Agreement. Miguel Arias Cañete, EU commissioner on climate action and energy, told CNN in a statement that the two powers "are joining forces to forge ahead on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and accelerate the global transition to clean energy."

According to the experts, a US withdrawal would remove the world’s second-largest emitter and nearly 18 percent of the globe’s present-day emissions from the agreement, presenting a severe challenge to its structure and raising questions about whether it would weaken the commitments of other nations.

This is while, The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had committed to reduce its emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. However, with Trump’s record of taking controversial decisions unilaterally, one could anticipate harder days for the planet regarding the situation of climate change.