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How bad could Trump's Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist's perspective

  • Written by Robert Kopp, Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Director, Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative, Rutgers University
imageThe U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about $100 billion of damage to the global economy.Cammie Czuchnicki/shutterstcok.com

Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a lower-carbon future. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007, and...

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