A Paris Progress Report

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United States. The symbolism of the American government’s retreat overshadowed the reality that the U.S. business community has embraced a low-carbon future. “We committed under Paris to do nothing we weren’t gonna do anyway and that we aren’t doing anyway,” says former Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope. Many countries have also reaffirmed their commitments to the Paris agreement. But how much progress has really been made, both at home and abroad? Guests: Gil Duran, Former Spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Bill Hare, Founder and CEO, Climate Analytics Amy Myers Jaffe, Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability, UC Davis Graduate School of Management Carl Pope Former Executive Director, Sierra Club Jim Sweeney, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford University Portions of this program were recorded at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.5	The United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord.
0:43.3	In June 2017, President Trump announced the U.S. plan to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
0:49.3	But despite its strong symbolism, the move has done little to dampen America's drive for clean energy. Donald Trump took his hand off the tiller, and America kept sailing towards the lower carbon
1:00.0	future. That's because America wants to go there. That's because it's profitable.
1:04.0	Along with numerous U.S. cities, states, and businesses, many countries have reaffirmed their
1:08.0	commitments to the 2015 agreement. But has that been mostly talk and little action?
1:13.6	If we measured talk, I think there'd be lots of countries who could be classified as role models.
1:18.6	So we look at the numbers.
1:24.6	A Paris Progress Report.
1:26.6	Up next on Climate One.
1:30.9	I'm Devin Strolovich.
1:32.6	In June 2017, President Trump announced that he'll start to withdraw the country from the Paris Climate Agreement,
1:38.1	reached by 195 countries in 2015, claiming it disadvantaged the United States.
1:43.7	In fact, the deal allows each country to set
1:45.7	their own customized and voluntary path toward energy fitness. The symbolism of the American
1:50.6	government's withdrawal overshadowed the reality that the U.S. business community has embraced
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