“The United States will be losers” by leaving the Paris agreement again, believes climate diplomacy figure Laurence Tubiana

Donald Trump signed a decree on Monday providing for the exit from the Paris climate agreement.

The American President, Donald Trump, signed a decree on Monday, once again, providing for the exit from the Paris climate agreement. For the economist, diplomat and architect of this agreement, Laurence Tubiana, guest of franceinfo Tuesday January 21, “the United States will be the losers” because there will be no “leak” other countries, nor the renunciation of large companies which consider that “going back is not an option.”

The first departure of the United States from the Paris agreement in 2017, already under the leadership of Donald Trump, “did not lead to any departures”insists Laurence Tubiana, “all other countries continued, albeit too slowly, but the Paris agreement continued to apply.” The economist wants to be “optimistic” on the fact “that there is no widespread leak” this time neither. Laurence Tubiana believes that it “There are those who think about the future and those who try to look towards the 19th century and the fossils.”

She believes that the reason is that “this transition, which is a technological revolution, has begun. The number of companies that have bet on this transition has increased enormously since Paris. It's considerable! Look at electric vehicles, batteries, renewable energies and more. other facts as well.” Moreover, while the Davos Forum opened, where it is located, it “sees all the big companies saying: 'We will continue because we have already made the choice'. So going back is not an option.”

Same optimism regarding China's commitments, because according to it, “we will see what President Xi Jinping will decide, but I see in the investments, in the new Chinese plan, rather indications [qui montrent que cela] will continue.”