And that will increase U.S. GDP $75-80 billion annually (citizensclimatelobby.org) while phasing out fossil fuels, globally within the next decade (Newsweek), which is about all the time we have left.
The main trigger for this sudden role reversal was President Donald Trump's June 1 announcement that the USA would withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and now we're starting to see the ripple effects of that decision.
The Paris agreement was a commitment by 195 countries to reduce carbon emissions.
The G7 environment ministers issued the final communique after their two-day meeting ended June 12, the first since the United States announced it was withdrawing from the pact.
The Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami is also threatened, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the South Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, the Hill reported.
Pruitt only attended the meeting for a couple of hours, McKenna says and his officials who remained behind didn't say much during the remainder of the negotiations.
However, he says that Fiji looked forward to continued engagement from the United States to address the severe impacts of climate change. His decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord won't change that.
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"Everything else for us is excluded", he said. Bainimarama on Tuesday joined Fiji in the Under2 Coalition, a pact among cities, states and countries that Brown helped launch in 2015 aimed at keeping the rise of global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.
All but a very few scientists say the overwhelming majority of global warming is man-made.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was there on behalf of the United States but left more than a day early after other leaders expressed their disappointment in the US for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement June 1.
"They needed to hear why America was stepping away from the Paris accord, and they did", Perry said.
In a statement, the EPA said the us had "reset the climate change discussion" at the G-7 meeting and stressed that it was a party to the 15-page communique, except for the four pages dealing with climate change and financing for sustainable development.
In a statement, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the communique and the meeting are proof the United States is "resetting the agenda" on the Paris agreement. This conference is full of people from government and the private sector who are working hard to combat climate change in various ways, so it's no surprise that they are in favor of the Paris accord. Our actions will continue to be inspired and guided by the growing, global momentum to tackle climate change and to accelerate the irreversible transition to low-carbon, climate resilient and resource-efficient economies. The pledge signed by Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and Britain was incomplete because the United States refused.
- U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, supported the withdrawal, arguing it would hurt the state's economy and jobs. So far, more than 10 states have joined the alliance, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. Then there are the economic benefits of developing a clean-energy economy - also ignored by Trump.
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