Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action
The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis.
The US has always sent delegations of various sizes to UN climate summits over the past three decades, even during periods under George W Bush and Donald Trump’s first term where there was scant desire to address the global heating crisis.
But the upcoming talks in Belém, Brazil, next month are set to be devoid of an official American presence to an extent never seen before. Trump has previously called the climate crisis a “hoax” and a “con job” and has said that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which calls for countries to limit the dangerous global temperature rise.
“The Green New Scam would have killed America if President Trump had not been elected to implement his commonsense energy agenda – which is focused on utilizing the liquid gold under our feet to strengthen our grid stability and drive down costs for American families and businesses,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Guardian. The “scam” reference relates to the climate policies of Joe Biden.
