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Pushing for more ambitious climate finance is going to be almost impossible without the U.S. buy-in, which will de-motivate developing countries from taking seriously the climate ambitions of the West,
said Elisabetta Cornago, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform
If one of the three-legged pillars is wobbling or uncertain, the other two need to hold fast,
a European diplomat told ReutersAny attempt by anyone to sidestep shared responsibilities must be met with dismay,
said Evans Njewa, chair of the blocA strengthened climate alliance with Europe and China at the center is our best hope for the next few years,
he saidWe have seen over the past years, through various election results, that the implementation of the Paris Agreement has gone forward,
she saidWe'll almost certainly see that be air-brushed out of history if Trump is re-elected, at least for his time in office
Mr Garrett told SBS
Australia and our partners in the region are going to have to tread increasingly carefully as the US becomes more predictable and volatile in the weeks and months ahead’
She addedWe should get out of the Paris climate agreement, dump net zero (which is dead anyway because of Trump) and unleash a New Age of Australian Energy Abundance,
he posted
During his first presidency, Trump tried to withdraw the US from climate diplomacy, but state and local governments powered ahead,
McKenzie said in a statementWe need to consider our policies around net zero and their impact on the cost of living for every Australian and adopt policy that the Australian people can actually afford,
Pitt told Guardian Australia on Thursday.jpg)
Even if you were a climate sceptic and didn’t believe any of the science and didn’t notice that there were more floods and more bushfires and more cyclones – it would still be good policy because it will produce the cheapest form of energy, not the most expensive, which we know as nuclear,
Albanese said on ThursdayThere’s no change in our position,
the spokesperson saidI want to see Australia stay committed to net zero by 2050,
he told ABC Radio NationalThe re-election of Trump means that we can all say what we think again,
he wroteClearly president-elect Trump took bold positions on a number of policies and was successful,
he saidIt’s just really hard for any country to up their ambitions at a time when the official position of the US government is that they want to pull away from climate action,
Chris Field, the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, explained
I think that everything is likely to be very different in a few years. Especially, given that it isn’t just the presidential outcome. Everything from the presidency, to Congress, to the courts, will be in lock-step alignment with doing the opposite of what we need to do to solve these problems,
said Swain
Overall, I think the election result shows that the rest of the world has to stop waiting for the US to lead on climate. That will not happen any time in the next four years,
Naomi Oreskes, the author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, also told The Independent in an emailBased on both what he said during the campaign and his record when he was president, President Trump will proceed to rip down as much of that as he can. Unless, somehow, he has an amazing conversion on the climate change issue,
Princeton University Professor Michael Oppenheimer noted.jpg)
As I stated before the election, a second Trump term, which includes implementation of ‘Project 2025,’ is the end of climate action as we know it, this decade,
Dr. Michael E. Mann, the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability, & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Independent in an emailed statement on Tuesday