Disappointment on Climate Unilateralism

United States President Donald Trump announced that U.S. would withdraw from Paris Climate Accord, which required every country to make its own plan for reducing emission of greenhouse gasses. Although U.S. Barack Obama administration made a pledge to reduce the gasses on the level of 2005 by 26 to 28% in 2025, Trump declared nullifying it. Shinzo Abe administration was appalled by the unilateral behavior of its most important and “indispensable” ally.

Trump in a TV footage from Rose Garden looked like a kid exciting after breaking building blocks down, which were accumulated spending long period of time. “In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord – thank you, thank you,” said Trump. He declared to “begin negotiations to reenter either Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction.”

Trump did not hesitate in denouncing Paris Accord, which was a major outcome for dealing with unprecedented threat of human being called global warming after long and complicated negotiations by developed and developing countries or great and small emitters. “The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production,” insisted Trump. He only looks at a part of various interests in the biggest country in North America on this planet.

Other countries began to alienate unilateral U.S. The President of European Union, Donald Tusk, and Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqhang, agreed on a joint declaration which reconfirmed mutual cooperation for implementing Paris Accord ignoring U.S. stepping out. As the two top leaders of climate framework, China and E.U. is going to make further effort for reinforcing Green Climate Fund of United Nations and have close cooperation for a feed-in tariff system newly introduced in China.

Disappointment and anger covered Japanese government. “He defied human wisdom, which has reached on this level at last,” told Minister of Environment, Koichi Yamamoto, who had participated in the negotiation over Kyoto Protocol in 1997. However, Prime Minister Abe has not issued any official response. While he sold his name as the leader of emission reduction in his first term, Abe is now reluctant to persuade Trump to remain in the framework of tackling climate change these years. He fears stimulating America.