Experts warn Trump’s win sets back global climate action
Climate experts are warning that Donald Trump’s upcoming term as U.S. president poses a grave threat to the planet if it blows up the international effort to curb dangerous global heating.
They say his return to the White House is widely expected to result in the U.S. again exiting the Paris climate agreement.
It may even remove American involvement in the underpinning United Nations framework to deal with the climate crisis.
While campaigning, Trump called climate change “a big hoax”. He has also scorned wind energy and electric cars, and vowed to gut environmental rules and what he called the “green new scam” of the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation passed by Democrats supports clean energy projects.
Analysts note that Trump’s agenda risks adding several billion tons of extra heat-trapping gasses to the atmosphere, endangering the goal of reducing global warming.
Environmental groups say they will attempt to rally Democrats, as well as some Republicans, to oppose Trump’s tearing down of climate policies.
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