Future of the Paris Climate Agreement – the expert view
June 7, 2017
Five experts weigh-in on the future of the Paris Agreement now that the United States federal government is no longer involved
Last week, US President Donald Trump followed through on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a set of voluntary commitments designed to slow the rate of climate change. At the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent think tank on humanitarian issues, five experts within the field of international development analyse what this means for climate policy in the rest of the world. They emphasise how the agreements reached at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC must be upheld and increased by all powers – international and domestic, public and private.
