Market Forces May Impact Emissions More Than Climate Agreements Listen· 3:38
View on NPR website"JOYCE: In effect, Larsen says, what happens over the next few years has already been set in motion. The picture beyond 2020, though, gets cloudy. By then, whatever the Trump administration does to dismantle climate regulations would have kicked in. Economist Marc Hafstead says that if the economy grows faster as well, the downward emissions trend could stall by 2025.
MARC HAFSTEAD: And my analysis was, under the best-case scenario, we'd come in somewhere around 10."
"HAFSTEAD: Exiting Paris could potentially have political ramifications to the extent that our pulling out of the agreement is going to cause other countries to do less."
