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<\/a><\/p>\nHenrik Selin<\/a>,\u00a0Director of Curricular Innovation and Initiatives and\u00a0Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent Op-Ed examining\u00a0how President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement\u00a0cedes hard-won U.S. international leadership, and paves the way for Europe and China to fill the leadership vacuum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Selin’s Op-Ed, entitled “Trump\u2019s Exit of Paris Climate Accord Strengthens China and\u00a0Europe,<\/a>” was published by\u00a0The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on June 4, 2017.<\/p>\n From the text of the Op-Ed:<\/p>\n President Trump\u2019s much-anticipated decision to exit the Paris Agreement on climate change strikes another blow against the current multilateral international order by his administration and reinforces its America First stance toward the world.<\/p>\n Trump declared his administration\u2019s intent to stop honoring and cease all implementation of the nonbinding parts of the Paris Agreement. This includes the goals and actions to reduce emissions outlined in the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) as well as any further contributions to the Green Climate Fund, which provides money to poor countries to lower emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n With this action, which goes against the positions of almost all other countries in the world, President Trump officially, and entirely voluntarily, ceded hard-won U.S. international leadership. Already, China and the EU are showing signs they are willing to fill the leadership vacuum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Henrik Selin<\/a> conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is <\/span>EU and Environmental Governance,<\/a> by Routledge Press, and is also the author of <\/span>Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by MIT Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof. Henrik Selin discusses whether U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord has created a vacuum for Europe and China to fill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9860,1688,2098,8368,8401,8859,8449,8564,9596,9801],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions\/47703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}