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The Pros And Cons Of The Paris Climate Change

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A country in ruins after six years of ongoing civil war; another known for its political unrest, dictatorship, fiscal crisis; and the leader of the free world – the land of the free and the home of the brave. Above was the description of the three countries that are not part of the Paris Climate change Agreement. Syria, Nicaragua and the United States.While the Trump administration deems the Paris Climate change agreement to waste taxpayer money and kill employment, it actually creates alternate job opportunities and paves way for a sustainable future. On June 1st, 2017, President Trump announced that the United States of America will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and called it a draconian financial and economic …show more content…

[THE WHITE HOUSE, 2017]

President Donald Trump based his argument on misinterpreted and misleading job and economy statistics predominantly derived from the key findings table in the National Economic Research Associates’ March 2017 report on Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Regulations on the Industrial Sector. The report asserted that the American economy would lose about $250 billion in 2025 and as much as 2.7 million jobs. President Trump further claimed that compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord would handicap the country’s economy, cost 6.5 million …show more content…

On May 9 2017, twenty-five major companies including Microsoft, Google, Intel bought a full page ad in the New York Times urging President Trump to not leave the Paris Agreement. A key point was specified under the subheading Creating Jobs, Markets and Growth which argued that “by expanding markets for innovative clean technologies, the agreement generates jobs and economic growth. U.S. companies are well positioned to lead in these markets. Withdrawing from the agreement will limit our access to them and could expose us to retaliatory measures. [C2ES, 2017] The President has also failed to consider jobs being created in the renewable energy sector which is booming with opportunities and innovations. With industries like Tesla’s GigaFactory coming up, the US Department of Energy has assessed that the solar workforce increased by 25 per cent in 2016. [U.S. Energy and Employment Report, 2017, 39] The number of workers employed in wind energy based industries has increased by 32 per cent. [U.S. Energy and Employment Report, 2017, 37] The solar energy industry employs more Americans than the coal

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