Trump administration pushed to remove mentions of climate change from an international statement on Arctic policy
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“There have been challenges in the negotiations with the United States,” one of these officials said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to northern Finland for the two-day session next week with fellow foreign ministers from Nordic nations, Canada and Russia. The meeting is the first high-level gathering of the Arctic Council since the United States announced in June 2017 its withdrawal in from the 2016 Paris global agreement on reducing carbon emissions.
Two officials said they do not expect the document to refer to the Paris agreement, now that the United States is pulling out — an apparent compromise. The other seven Arctic nations are all signatories. The Obama administration, particularly former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, saw the Arctic Council — which includes the United States, Canada, Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland — as a vehicle for talking about climate change because of the dramatic pace of events in the region.
The council and its agenda are more important for other members, most of which have a national identity intertwined with the region and consider the body the pre-eminent forum for addressing Arctic issues. The United States is a member because of Alaska. “Go look at the countries that are still in the Paris agreement and see what their CO2 emissions were. It’s one thing to sign a document; it’s another thing to actually change your behavior,” Pompeo said.
“It is the central issue for the Arctic Council to address. The joint statement of ministers of the Arctic Council must reflect the urgency of Arctic decline and the commitment of governments to act with absolute urgency to respond,” Pomerance said. “The fate of Greenland is the fate of Miami.”
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