US local weather envoy John Podesta on Monday urged governments to maintain religion within the nation’s promise to fight world warming, saying Donald Trump can “gradual”, not cease, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns to workplace in January.
Trump has promised to once more take away the USA, the world’s largest historic greenhouse fuel emitter, from worldwide local weather cooperation and maximise the nation’s already record-high fossil gasoline manufacturing.
“For these of us devoted to local weather motion, final week’s end result in the USA is clearly bitterly disappointing,” Podesta mentioned on the annual UN local weather summit that started on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan.
“However what I wish to inform you as we speak is that whereas the USA federal authorities, underneath Donald Trump, might put local weather motion on the again burner, the work to include local weather change goes to proceed in the USA,” he added.