Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jun. 8, 2017
We'll always have Paris... until 2020
The fundamental flaw in Trump's argument about the benefits of leaving the Paris Agreement is his misunderstanding of how the agreement works.
Daniel A. Farber
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Law
Daniel is the Sho Sato professor of law and co-director of the Center on Law, Energy, and the Environment at UC Berkeley
President Donald J. Trump announced on June 1 that he had decided to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. It would be hard to find an independent expert on climate policy who agrees with the decision. Rather than debating the decision, however, I want to focus on its impacts. If we look only at the next few years, Trump's decision will have little immediate effect on the U.S. economy, our carbon emissions, or on the efforts of the rest of the world to fight climate cha...
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