The U.S. administration of Donald Trump on Monday scuppered efforts by the Group of Seven industrialized countries to reach a common stance on energy when it asked for more time to work out its policies on climate change. Trump signed an order in March to undo climate change regulations drawn up under his predecessor Barack Obama, calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to fight global warming.
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Europe’s leading energy companies have announced that they will build no new coal-fired power plants in the European Union after 2020, in support of the goals agreed by international community under the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The central goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep the maximum global average temperature rise as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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di Francesco Rutelli
Dopo gli annunci elettorali, il Presidente Trump ha iniziato a prendere misure esecutive. Fermato dal Congresso (pur a maggioranza repubblicana) sulla riforma sanitaria, sta cercando soldi per il celebre muro divisorio col Messico. Vedremo.
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Donald Trump has launched a far-reaching effort to undo Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, signing an executive order that rolls back the former president’s action against climate change and boosts fossil fuel power. Mr Trump heralded the order on Tuesday as a “new era in American energy” that would “eliminate federal over-reach” and do away with “job-killing regulations”.
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The fingerprint of human-caused climate change has been found on heatwaves, droughts and floods across the world, according to scientists. The discovery indicates that the impacts of global warming are already being felt by society and adds further urgency to the need to cut carbon emissions. A key factor is the fast-melting Arctic, which is now strongly linked to extreme weatheracross Europe, Asia and north America.
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