ParisAgreement withdrawal doesn't even take effect until the day after election day 2020

[jodymarie aimee]

Keep in mind Trump's #ParisAgreement withdrawal doesn't even take effect until the day after election day 2020. A coward to the end.

[BootinUp]

1. It's not that I don't believe he can

win reelection, I just think it's very very unlikely.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Does that mean there's hope for Earth?

[CrispyQ]

3. Link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/us-paris-accord-what-happens-next.html?_r=0

snip...

The Paris climate deal, which 195 countries agreed to in 2015, was designed to work through voluntary action and peer pressure. Because it was never ratified by the Senate, the United States will face few barriers to leaving.

The Trump administration plans to invoke the accord’s formal withdrawal mechanism, a winding legal process that will take four years to complete and would lead to an official exit on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the next presidential election. A future administration could, if it chose, rejoin.

The United States would remain a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and could still participate in future U.N.-sponsored climate discussions. But Mr. Trump said he would not abide by any of the United States’ previous commitments under the Paris agreement and would rejoin only if the accord were drastically renegotiated, an unlikely prospect.