Jean-Marc Ayrault is France’s minister of foreign affairs and international development. Climate change is already disrupting the environmental, economic and political balance across the world. Since then, 141 parties have ratified the Paris agreement, including the United States, France, the European Union as a whole, China and India, and the agreement entered into force in November 2016. Now is the time to implement it — to actually reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions, to ensure that policies match national commitments. Opting out of this effort may well satisfy short-term interests in specific sectors, but it would ultimately harm long-term interests.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2017 23:48 UTC