Twelfth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

The goal of this conference paper is to examine transatlantic (US-European Union) cooperation in the context of the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change for emissions reductions in the strategic agriculture and automotive industry sectors. As the historical sectors for the industrial revolution and socio-economic transformation of Europe, the United States and Japan, the agriculture and automotive manufacturing industries sectors are now major global sources of CO2 emissions, environmental pollution, and natural resource depletion. In response to this shared threat to nations and world society, scientists, industry technology innovators, government policymakers and local communities are now working on CO2 emissions reduction and environmental sustainability in agricultural/food production and automotive manufacturing industries. Transatlantic cooperation and UN global normative agreement, international science-based regulation/policy cooperation and industry standards harmonization are required to accelerate global climate mitigation and CO2 emissions reduction in these strategic sectors of nations. To achieve required levels of emissions reduction, science-based international regulatory/government policy cooperation and global industry standards harmonization requires national and regional coordination in the following United Nations global science and technical standard-setting bodies; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Standard Organization (ISO) and World Automotive Regulation Harmonization Body – Working Party 29. The achievement of transatlantic and UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change goals for rapid emissions reductions and mitigation goals requires multi-level and inter-agency government policy cooperation, industry collaboration and societal transformation for sustainable, circular and renewable agriculture (food production) and automotive (transportation) industries in the US and EU.