The US government began on Monday the formal process to
withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the largest binding pact in the face of the
climate crisis and establishing a global action plan to limit global warming.
Today, the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the United States submitted a formal notification of its withdrawal to the United Nations. The withdrawal will take effect one year after the notification is delivered. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
US President Donald Trump announced on June 1, 2017 that
Washington would withdraw from the agreement against climate change, although
the petition could not be formalized until today due to contractual issues of
the agreement itself, adopted in 2015.
Point 28 of the Paris Agreement indicates that any
country that has ratified the agreement, as is the case in the US, could only
request its exit three years after its entry into force, that is, today.
Once the petition has been formally submitted, another
year must pass before the agreement can be effective, so the United States will
disassociate itself from the pact on November 4, 2020.
"President
Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement due to the unfair
economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses and taxpayers for the
United States promises made under the agreement", Pompeo defended.
The head
of US diplomacy said that since the announcement of the abandonment of the United
States pact "it has reduced all types of emissions, even as the economy
grows and the Government guarantees citizens access to affordable energy".
Once the withdrawal process is completed, USA It will
join Nicaragua and Syria, the only two non-signatory countries of the
commitments made in Paris by almost 200 nations.
John
Kerry, who was the US secretary When the Paris Agreement was agreed in 2015, he
said today in an opinion article in The Washington Post that the formal
withdrawal of the pact means "a black day for the United States".
“President Trump took the step he promised in 2017 to
officially withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate
change, which all other countries on Earth have signed. This is not the United States first; once
again, it is the United States isolated”, Kerry wrote alongside the country's
then Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel.
The announcement of the abandonment of the agreement,
which was ratified by the Administration of then President Barack Obama (2009-2017),
provoked harsh criticism from world leaders and climate organizations, who
considered that Washington would lose its leadership position in the fight for
climate change.
SOURCE: La Vanguardia
