Giving Compass' Take:

· Nitin Sethi of Business Standard talks with Todd Stern, one of the architects of the Paris Agreement, about climate change under the Trump administration. 

· How is the US addressing climate change now? What can be done to increase efforts to protect the environment? 

· Interested in reading more on this subject? Check out this article about the impact of the federal climate report on cities.

US diplomats are working in Katowice to implement the Paris Agreement, says Todd Stern, who was one of the architects of the Paris Agreement as America’s special envoy on climate change when Barack Obama was the President. Stern explained to Nitin Seth how he sees differentiation being implemented in the rulebook.

You were one of the most important architects of the Paris Agreement. Here at Katowice we hear one side say the rulebook is moving away from what Paris provides. The other side says they have a different way of interpreting the same pact. Where do you see the state of play at the moment at Katowice?
You know I think that that were obviously in the last period of trying to get this rulebook done. I think that there are still some open issues and left a lot of progress has been made. It's a little bit hard to say with the text (with) still ongoing negotiations--it's a little hard for me to predict exactly. I think broadly speaking, the Paris Agreement was built on a number of important innovations with regard to the way climate negotiations had happened. It developed a kind of hybrid between bottom-up and top-down approach.

Read the full article about climate change and the Trump administration by Nitin Sethi at Business Standard.