"Trump’s Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis" [1]
"Project 2025’s plan to gut climate policy and boost fossil fuels could set back global efforts for decades."
"“It could be 2 steps forward or 20 steps back, cautious optimism or completely hopeless.”
The next meeting of the largest annual climate conference in the world takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, just six days after the U.S. presidential election in November. And organizers of COP29 are already bracing themselves for the election results to either strengthen or doom their efforts.
“It’s very scary,” said a climate adviser involved in the planning of COP29 who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not authorized to speak on behalf of the conference, where global leaders coordinate their efforts to reduce climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the transition to clean energy. “The Trump effect dominates all of our discussions.”
The tightly contested election is still five months away, but Donald Trump is already having an impact on global efforts to combat the climate crisis, congressional action on global warming, and clean-energy industry goals for 2025 and beyond."