PARIS, Nov 14, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - US president-elect Donald Trump's expected climate rollbacks will likely have a "small" impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, new research found Thursday. In a new analysis of countries' climate plans, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project said Trump's potential retreat from the green transition could increase global temperatures by around 0.04C by the end of the century. "The damage it would do emission-wise to global climate action, if just confined to the United States and over four to five years, is probably recoverable," he said. Hare said that a "fundamental" question will be the reaction of China, the biggest greenhouse gas emitter. In a separate report released Thursday, CAT looked at the plans of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters.
