Lawfare Archive: Sue Biniaz on the Trump Administration and International Climate Policy
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🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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From March 27, 2019: From 1989 to early 2017, Sue Biniaz was the lead climate lawyer and a climate negotiator at the State Department. She was also a key architect of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a UN-negotiated agreement designed to mitigate global warming, which went into effect in November 2016. In June 2017, President Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the agreement.
Sue sat down with Lawfare's Jack Goldsmith to talk about the early days of U.S. and international climate action, how the Paris Agreement came into force and the predecessor agreements that gave rise to it, how it was supposed to operate, and what impacts Trump's actions have had on international climate policy.
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| 0:18.2 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the LawFair Archive. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Emily Day and this is an episode from the LawFair Archives for October 31, 2021. |
| 0:50.7 | Last week, Department of Defense, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department |
| 0:55.2 | of Homeland Security and National Security Council released four distinct reports on |
| 0:59.3 | the effects of climate change on national security. |
| 1:02.4 | This weekend, world leaders are gathering for the G20 summit to address a variety of issues |
| 1:07.0 | and climate change is set to dominate discussion. |
| 1:09.7 | For this week, I chose an episode from March 27, 2019, where Sue Biniaz talks about major |
| 1:15.2 | international climate negotiations and how the Trump administration would impact international |
| 1:19.8 | climate policy. |
| 1:21.3 | Biniaz now serves as a member of the special presidential on-boy for climate team under |
| 1:25.6 | John Kerry. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast March 27, 2019. |
| 1:37.0 | From 1989 to early 2017, Sue Biniaz was the lead climate lawyer and a climate negotiator |
| 1:44.9 | at the State Department. |
| 1:46.6 | He was also a key architect of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a UN negotiated agreement |
| 1:53.1 | designed to mitigate global warming, which went into effect in November 2016. |
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