Common Contracts
1 similar Environmental Protection Agreement contracts
A Sustainable Environment: Our Obligation to Protect God’s GiftEnvironmental Protection Agreement • June 6th, 2017
We recently learned that President Trump is planning to cancel the Paris Agreement, and this has resulted in overreaction. According to the agreement, which was officially signed in November 2016, no signatory can undo the agreement for three years and then it wouldn’t take affect for another year which would be November 2020 – at the end of Trump’s term. But this doesn’t make much difference as the terms of the Paris Agreement are all voluntary. The U.S. has agreed to “try to reduce” carbon dioxide emissions 26 – 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. If we don’t achieve this goal, nothing happens except we can say “sorry” to the rest of the world. If our federal government takes this position, it doesn’t mean we can’t move forward. The state and municipal governments, NGOs, corporations and we as individuals can and must take the position to reduce emissions as much as possible.
