EU will only make trade deals with nations that ratify Paris climate agreement

[babylonsister]

EU will only make trade deals with nations that ratify Paris climate agreement
The United States would be excluded.
E.A. Crunden
Feb 6, 2018, 5:01 pm


The European Union will no longer make trade deals with the United States if President Trump follows through on withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, according to a French official whose comments were endorsed by the European Commission.

Addressing the French parliament on Thursday, French foreign affairs minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne drew a line in the sand.

“One of our main demands is that any country who signs a trade agreement with EU should implement the Paris Agreement on the ground,” said Lemoyne. “No Paris Agreement, no trade agreement. The [United States] knows what to expect.”

EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström tweeted support Lemoyne’s comments on Thursday.

“Yes Paris deal reference needed in all EU trade agreement today,” she wrote.

A day later, a spokesperson for the European Commission — which manages the EU’s day-to-day business — elaborated on Malmström’s stance while voicing support for the comments as well.

“Since the deal we concluded last year with Japan, this chapter contains an explicit reference to the ratification and actual implementation of the Paris climate deal,” the spokesperson told Climate Home News. “This point is a priority for the EU and it would be difficult to imagine concluding an important trade deal without an ambitious chapter on trade and sustainable development attached to it.”

That assertion means that any country that fails to ratify the Paris agreement — a landmark accord that was signed by virtually every country in the world in an effort to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius this century — will be shut out of new trade deals.

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https://thinkprogress.org/eu-paris-us-decd4aad9145/

[gratuitous]

1. Make America Great Again

Boy, who knew that trade with the EU was holding back the great and powerful United States of America? Another problem solved, another triumph for President Donald J. Trump!

So much winning.

[babylonsister]

3. Literally makes me ill. nt

[Pachamama]

5. Make America Alone

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Make America Special Again

Alone is right:
The U.S. is the only country to withdraw.

Meanwhile, 174 of 197 signatories have ratified the agreement.

Gee, thanks MASA cheetolini.

We can has impeach now bigly yuuge?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Make America Go Alone.

At least that keeps the MAGA intact.

[Freethinker65]

2. Your move stable genius

[Hortensis]

4. Ouch, and GOOD for the EU.

[tanyev]

6. The Shart of the Deal strikes again.

[femmedem]

7. Good for them because there should be penalties for not ratifying the Paris Accord.

Everything, literally everything, depends on our keeping carbon emissions low enough so that our planet remains habitable.

How I wish that we hadn't become such a rogue, dangerous nation.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Come on now, Mr. 'I, alone, know it all'...

What are you going to do now? Write a book?

[NCTraveler]

9. This is one of the reasons being involved is so important.

These agreements force minimum standards. I was all for the TPP if a few more worker protections were put in place.

[Stardust1]

10. Maybe

Maybe the reason why extremist groups like Brexit and TrDump followers hate the EU is because they actually have morals and care about the future of this planet instead of making a quick buck.

[sheshe2]

11. Climate denier Don just shut America down.

That assertion means that any country that fails to ratify the Paris agreement — a landmark accord that was signed by virtually every country in the world in an effort to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius this century — will be shut out of new trade deals.

He has now made us a pariah on the worlds stage.

[JDC]

12. We just got sanctioned. So much winning!

Back to Freedom Fries I guess.

[Mosby]

13. the paris agreement is a joke

Last edited Wed Feb 7, 2018, 05:52 PM - Edit history (1)

It lets the world top polluters, China and India to set their own goals, all but ignoring the coal businesses in those countries as well as their business partners elsewhere.

Want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Tell China and India to stop building coal fired plants. But that will never happen.

[Xipe Totec]

14. But where will we export all that clean beautiful coal? nt

[bronxiteforever]

16. Laughable Koch affiliated Institute for energy research.

Watts Up With That? Is a blog promoting climate change denial

[Mosby]

23. the links I used might be total crap

But the basic facts I outlined cannot be disputed.

The truth is climate change is happening, regardless what the US does or doesn't do.

You know China isn't just the biggest polluter of greenhouse gases, they are the largest producer of all types of pollution, like carbon monoxide and sulfites. That's why kids in China are showing respiratory illnesses as young as three years old. The Paris agreement changes nothing.

[LanternWaste]

29. My sources are crap but my premise is sound?

My sources are crap but my premise is sound? That may be the second most absurd logical fallacy I've read this week.

A new form of fake logic you recently invented, no doubt. As long as it validates your narrative, no doubt you''re cool with it.

[Mosby]

30. you havent exactly presented evidence to the contrary

I'm not presenting a narrative, just basic facts.

The Paris agreement allows countries to select their own emission reduction goals, and the countries I mentioned are taking advantage of that fact. None of the reductions will slow climate change.

[BannonsLiver]

28. +1

I've seen all I need to see from that poster.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. We can hope that sooner rather than later they'll catch on to the fact

that the hideous pollution they are suffering under can be eliminated. Hell, London had killer fogs (what they were actually called, and I vaguely remember them being in the news) in the 1950's because of coal emissions. They got their own clean air act and long since got rid of them.

[gratuitous]

19. As long as we're all joking around

The Institute for Energy Research, founded and run by a former Enron executive, is pretty goddam funny place to go for an unbiased look at energy, funded as it has been by ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute (their spokeswomen are just so pretty, while selling death and environmental destruction).

[Mosby]

24. that may very well be true

I just looked for some links.

It doesn't change the fact that China and India are building hundreds and hundreds of coal fired power plants, all while participating in the Paris agreement.

[karynnj]

20. Everyone sets their own goals

For decades, the reason we could not get an agreement with everyone was that some wanted a one size fits all commitment. The average amount of energy used PER PERSON is less for countris like China and India. They resented that it was not considered that they created less of the proplem.

[VMA131Marine]

26. China has a moratorium on new coal-fired generation

They are rapidly installing solar and wind generation plants. And they'll be able to grow renewable energy production faster than the US can. India also has initiatives to rapidly grow renewable energy production.

[Cha]

21. trump's oil

donors don't want alternative energy to save the Planet.. so the Russian mole doesn't want to piss them off.

Besides President Obama made the deal for our Country.. and I hear it took 2 yearsish.. and then some on hear blew it off as no big deal.

But it was a damn start.

[triron]

22. Hope the EU means what they say

[Fresh_Start]

25. Maybe EU will decide worker protection and healthcare are required

for becoming a trading partner, too.

[flamingdem]

27. Boom! Well done EU

Hooray

[triron]

32. +1000

[spanone]

31. your move, don.

[triron]

33. This should be BIG news

Where is MSM? Why the silence?

[triron]

34. knr