For years, countries around the world have been pressing the US to join them in solving the climate crisis and to show it is serious about taking action. Now, with key climate talks at the United Nations this week, other countries are quietly hoping the US will stay cool.
Under Donald Trump, who called the climate crisis “the biggest job the world has ever done”, the US has not only destroyed its own climate policies.
“If you don’t stay away from this green scam, your country will fail,” the US president told leaders in a speech in September.” You need strong boundaries and traditional boundaries and traditional boundaries and traditional boundaries and traditional boundaries and you need them again. “
There was an air of relief among some diplomats, then, when the White House said no high-level representatives would attend the Cop30 Summit in Belém, Brazil, this week. “President Trump will not harm the country’s economy and national security in order to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries,” said a White House spokesman.
The American commitment to stop the global fix has been getting worse and worse over the years but the US now appears to be not only disinterested, but actively fighting for the other side. “Before, it was very enjoyable, even in Trump’s first term,” said a former senior State Department official. “Now it’s the opposite. They don’t want to join and neither do others, though.
“If the choice is not the US or a US with a usurper, to break up and disrupt things most countries want not us,” added most countries. “I mean, we’re right now in Saudi Arabia, if you think about it. The Saudis are negotiating a lot but they’re not against what Paris says.”
Trump was not, as expected, present at a leader Summit held last week as a curtena racer for Cop30, with the leaders of Colombia and Chile calling him a liar on climate science.
The position of the US on the climate has hit a nadir, more hostile than during the first term of Trump or under the US Stern Peopiator for the US in Kyoto Protiator for the US in the US in Kyoto Protiator for the US in the US in Kyoto Protiator for the US in the US in Kyoto Protiator for the US in Knime Clime One in the US in Barack Obama in the Presidency.
“The President has made it clear that he wants to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, so it’s no surprise to me that they’re not sending anyone because they’re not participating in it,” Stern said. “I don’t think they’re going to add anything useful. This is a very aggressive administration right now, across the board.”
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U.S. representatives in the talks were accused of using behavior-like behavior to force countries to drop the plan, IS reported Issue threats of higher fees for port in American ports and even VISA travel restrictions for negotiators and their families. Trump called the proposal a “global green new shipping scam tax” and demanded it be stopped. The tactics appear to have paid off, with the pollution charge now lasting a year.
“This has a microscopic effect on the US economy, especially compared to Trump’s Tariff, and yet they resort to thug tactics,” said Sheldon Whiteuse, a Democratic senator.
While the US may not appear in Brazil at all – the office of the State department that deals with climate issues today snake And there was no US presence at climate meetings in Germany and then church This year – it is said that national countries still need to be aware of an “Al Capitone-Style Active in Cop30, which can be a European import tax based on the pollution of the planet they produce.
“I think if you allow yourself to be afraid of this administration, they will take all the ground that you consider it, and then it will go back,” he said. “It’s only when you stop and fight and push that you have a chance.”
Bringing an anonymous “drill, baby, drill” drilling “the attack on the individual deal to ramp up in countries such as Japan and South Korea, as well as taking a promise From the European Union to buy more US Oil and Gas.
EU climate rules are targeted by the White House, as are UK wind farms. “We’re not going to make air because air is a disaster,” Trump said during a press conference with Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, in September. “It’s a very expensive joke, frankly.”
Although Trump has destroyed climate policies and halted renewable energy projects in the US, it will inevitably lead to energy cuts around the world. The world is set to build nearly 4,600 watts of clean power between now and 2030, the International Energy Agency recently foundwhich is almost double the amount built in the last five-year period which, in turn, is double the amount installed in the five years before that.
“The thing about climate change is you can’t stop the waves,” Stern said. “There is an inexorable, steady, strong movement toward clean energy around the world.
“This administration may want to come back in the future but it’s not going to happen. Police nations are not going to take the United States into account at the national level.”
But Trump’s antipathy toward climate action is just the most pointed manifestation of a general masculinity in world politics. Governments are more intent on seeing inflation than carbon pollution and almost every country does not pay or finance the worst floods, hurricanes and droughts.
Some climate advocates have become distracted by other issues or even downplayed the severity of the crisis. Trump recently called for a billion in prison bill for billions in climate action, Posting the Truth of the Truth: “I (we!) just won the battle on climate change. Finally the Gatels of the Bill to do it completely on the issue. It is fair to do it, and because we are all grateful. See you!!”
The weakest countries are now riding to see if any leaders can last now. “The withdrawal of the US from the Paris agreement leaves a void that needs to be filled,” said Ilana Seid, urging countries with a smaller world threatened by a warmer world.
Seid said that smaller, developing countries do not have the resources to recover from the type of destruction caused by many hurricanes such as the hurricane that hit Jamaica and the Sea.
“Because of the major climate action countries, we are off track on the 1.5C goal, and heading for more damaging impacts,” he said. “It’s a powerful illustration of the inexorable, disproportionate impact on vulnerable people who contribute the least to climate change.”
The US government may be absent, but nearly 100 US governors, members of Congress and State and city and town officials still going In Belém to argue that a large part of the US is still committed to dealing with the climate crisis. The task of Cop30 is to keep despair at bay, until a rapid global warming can also focus on the climate emergency that amplifies most of the other Today’s problems are drawing attention.
“No country, including the United States, is now being led by an anti-scientific, more authoritarian Trump,” said Rachel Cleetus, global director of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
“The question is, is the speed accelerated, given the wonderful space we are now in the climate crinter. We have a rapid recession.