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The reasons for a US withdrawal were given seven years ago this month by President Trump. The logic holds with ever more reason.

President Macron has called a snap parliamentary election after devastating losses to right wing challenger Marine Le Penn in recent European elections.

Does "there's no sense in signing up to targets you don't have any prospect of achieving" translate to a commitment to dump Australia's Paris obligations?

The benefits of not meeting Paris Accord emissions-reduction targets outweigh the costs associated even with worst-case-scenario global warming throughout the 21st century.

Without rapid carbon dioxide emission reductions, the world has a 50% chance of locking in 1.5°C of warming before 2030, according to a study led by Imperial College London researchers.

China blithely continues on its own path, demonstrating to the world that the Paris Agreement and the entire global climate change initiative is an exercise in futility.

As industries in green nations like Germany struggle with unaffordable green energy, China is boosting coal use. China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. That’s bad…

Developing countries will continue to defy international climate goals as they become more intentional about addressing economic concerns.

Article 6.4 apparently rejects machine based carbon sequestration in favour of poor nation carbon reserves, which have a hideous baggage of human rights violations.

Six years later, the logic of withdrawal remains–and more so.

Regular breakdowns of the coal-fired power plants that supply more than 80% of South Africa’s electricity mean that less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere and daily rotational cuts of more than 10 hours...

... But we can't consider it a Paris Agreement breach, because volcanic impacts on climate change are natural, not manmade.

Clearly the net zero push to date has been a complete failure. But the green focus on renewables made this inevitable.

Aussie climate academics demanding better international compliance with their diktats.

As global demand for coal skyrockets, a shortage of coal miners is the biggest impediment the growing coal renaissance.