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8. What would happen to the Green Climate Fund if the United States withdraws from the Paris Agreement?

At a glance, the possibility that the United States could withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the European Community began to discuss some scenarios to fill the absence of the largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet. Brussels would try to involve China to the maximum, as has been said, responsible for more than a quarter of global emissions, a country that has recently shown a growing interest in environmental issues. Even so, European efforts would not be enough to fill the space left by Washington. “It will be much more difficult to achieve the Paris objectives. The European Union cannot do everything if the United States does not apply its part, “predicted Hans Bruyninckx, in an interview with the newspaper EL PAÍS, Spain. The director of the European Environment Agency added that the fight against climate change is not only carried out in the environment of the heads of state and government, and he exemplified the efforts of the State of California in promoting energy renewables against global warming.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF), was created to finance projects, programs, policies and other preventive activities or consequences of the effects of climate change, to support developing countries.

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