{"id":35274,"date":"2017-11-07T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=35274"},"modified":"2017-11-12T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:29:40","slug":"syria-join-paris-agreement-isolating-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2017\/11\/07\/syria-join-paris-agreement-isolating-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria to join Paris Agreement, isolating US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Syria has announced that it will sign up to the Paris agreement at the COP23 climate summit in Bonn,\u00a0meaning the US would be alone if it left\u00a0the global pact to prevent climate catastrophe.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The declaration was made by a Syrian delegate at a plenary session of the conference this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since 2012, Syria has been embroiled in a bloody civil war that has claimed 300,000 lives. Its greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 added up to 88.19m tonnes \u2013 or 0.19% of the world total &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatelinks.org\/sites\/default\/files\/asset\/document\/2017_USAID_GHG%20Emissions%20Factsheet_Syria.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">according to US Aid<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nicaragua, which gets half of its energy from renewable sources,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-40135819\"><span class=\"s2\">had also been withholding its signature<\/span><\/a>\u00a0until stronger measures were in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the small central American state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2017\/09\/21\/nicaragua-join-paris-climate-deal-solidarity-first-victims\/\">relented last month<\/a>, leaving just two countries standing opposed to the climate pact. And now there is one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The US will plough a lonely furrow at the Bonn summit, as it prepares to leave the Paris agreement within three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Kelly Love, a White House spokeswoman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/07\/climate\/syria-joins-paris-agreement.html\"><span class=\"s2\">reportedly commented<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs the president previously stated, the United States is withdrawing unless we can re-enter on terms the are more favourable for our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Safa\u2019 Al Jayoussi, executive director of Jordanian NGO IndyACT, said the Syrian delegation announced they would join during a meeting of the working group on the Paris deal. She said the organisation understood that the Syrian government intended to both sign and ratify the deal in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>It was important, she said, that all 22 countries from the Arab region would now be part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Paula Caballero, the global director of the World Resources Institute: &#8220;With Syria on board, now the entire world &#8211; save one country &#8211; is resolutely committed to advancing climate action. This should make the Trump administration reflect on their ill-advised announcement about withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Home News\u2019 reporting at Cop23 is supported in part by the European Climate Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/about-us\/republishing-our-work\/\">Republish this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria will sign the Paris climate deal, it announced at UN talks in Bonn, meaning the deal includes every nation, for 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