Environmentalists predict that the outcome of the US election will have a positive or negative effect on climate change.
According to the foreign news agency ‘AP’, what will happen on election day will determine to some extent how hot and polluted the world’s climate will be.
The day after the presidential election, the United States will formally withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
It is clear that a year ago, the administration of US President Donald Trump informed the United Nations that it would withdraw from the global agreement on the environment.
The United States is the world’s second largest emitter of carbon.
Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised immediate return to the country in the Paris Agreement, which does not require congressional approval.
Scientists and environmentalists have said that if the United States withdraws from the Paris Agreement, some other countries will also reject the agreement, the consequences will be wider.
“If the world moves away from the Paris Agreement, there will be a heat wave,” said Zack Hasfader, an environmentalist at the Breakthrough Institute in California.
Rob Jackson of Stanford University said that if the United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement on the environment, today’s children would “see great changes that none of us would have seen before.”
Nicholas Hohney, a climate scientist at the University of Wageningen in Germany, said the US election could be a turning point in international environmental policy.
In light of the rising tide of heat waves, global warming, wildfires, storms, droughts and hurricanes, the UN’s climate watchdog has warned that The number of people in need of help could increase by 50% by 2030 from 108 million in 2018.
The International State of Climate Services 2020 report, compiled by 16 international agencies and financial institutions, called on governments to spend as much money as possible on disaster management systems. Improve the ability and response of countries to deal with these natural disasters.
It should be noted that millions of Americans have already voted in the United States before the day of the presidential election on November 3, but each state has its own rules, due to which these votes will be counted with the ballot box. ۔
Incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Biden are among the other independent candidates in this year’s election, but there is fierce competition between the two political rivals.