Posted on February 6, 2019. Tags: climate change, COP24, Donald Trump, Trump administration
New members of the United States Congress supporting a Green New Deal do so against a backdrop of increasing American isolation on climate change, driven by President Trump’s intent to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Despite impending American non-participation, which will formally take effect after November 4, 2020, the international community reached a milestone in […]
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Posted in Environmental Security, UN, World
Posted on July 9, 2017. Tags: climate change, environment, Governance, Macron, Paris accord, Paris Agreement, U.S. Foreign Policy, United States
US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the country out of the Paris climate agreement may eventually end in a U-turn. After all, unpredictability has by far been Trump’s favourite foreign policy strategy. Yet should this one promise be kept its implications for global cooperation on climate change would be catastrophic. In the long term, […]
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Posted in Global Economy, US, World
Posted on May 19, 2017. Tags: Austria, climate change, Conservatives, environment, EU, European Union, Far-right, France, general election 2017, Globalization, green issues, green party, green politics, itvdebates, Macron, Media, Melenchon, Populism, Trump, UK, US, Van Der Bellen
Who will provide strong and stable leadership on the environment? Following May’s shock election announcement there has only been one issue on the agenda for both the media and political parties themselves: Brexit. One worrying effect of our preoccupation with constitutional issues is that green politics have been ignored. Despite Green Party gains in the […]
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Posted in Environmental Security, World