U.N. climate negotiations ended in disarray on Sunday, exposing deep rifts among industrialized nations, fast-growing economies like China and India and the poorest countries
The U.S. cannot officially withdraw from the Paris Agreement until November 4, 2020, the day after the presidential election. But Trump has repeatedly disavowed the pact and has dismissed climate change as a hoax.
Ammar Hijazi, a Palestinian diplomat who helped lead negotiations for a huge bloc of developing countries, acknowledged that negotiators had struggled because of the disparate positions. “One of the biggest emitters in the world has begun the process of withdrawal,” said Janine Felson of Belize, which headed a bloc of low-lying and small island countries. “And I think there is a not unfair concern that now that we’re all in the Paris world and we all have to do something, we’ll let one big emitter off the hook. And I think a lot of the maneuvering is meant to address that larger issue.
This year’s U.N. talks were meant to deal with outstanding small print of the rules for the Paris accord, the landmark 2015 agreement that for the first time brought the world’s nearly 200 countries together to make non-binding pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Those details included locking down agreement on
But none of the biggest countries announced any new actions that would be needed to meet the Paris goal of keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels — a target that already seems unachievable. And many large polluters pulled back into defensive postures, unwilling to go it alone with bold proclamations.
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