Posted on 03/08/2025 7:50:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States, under President Donald Trump, is withdrawing from a pair of global programs it had once deemed crucial for curtailing fossil fuels and dealing with the consequences of climate change.
In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, the United States said it is withdrawing from a board overseeing a fund for vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters. That “loss and damage” fund had stemmed from a hard-won diplomatic agreement reached in 2023.
Separately, a treasury spokesperson said the United States is pulling out of a global climate finance program — known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) — that seeks to help several large developing countries move away from fossil fuels, particularly coal.
The treasury spokesperson said the move was consistent with Trump’s executive order putting “America first in international environmental agreements.” The spokesperson said the United States would “continue to engage with partner countries on energy and investment issues of common interest.”
“The impacts on developing countries are huge” from the U.S. retreat, said Richard Sherman, a South African who co-chairs the loss and damage board.
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Promises made, promises kept.
Somehow, I don't believe a word of that.
[[and dealing with the consequences of climate change]]
Prove that the policies helped the climate WAPO! You can’t- so stop making the false claim-
Dems made this a little too easy...anything with the word Climate in it is obviously a scam
Yet the article does it’s best to frame it as Trump backtracking on HIS promises.
Effing Compost.
co2 is not a pollutant!!
Great news. May the climate scam die a fully defunded death.
agree
trump is getting out of biden policies...
I love AI. It's so easy to duspute the lies the media whores post....
No, Donald Trump did not support the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). In fact, the Trump administration has recently withdrawn the United States from the JETP initiative.
The predicate is true of the government under potatohead.
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Somehow, I don’t believe a word of that.
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Nor should you. See post 11.
I’m still waiting for NYC to ice over (1970s prediction)
Maybe, just maybe the cities would not flood if the engineers looked at how much of the watershed they are paving and building over.
BUMP
What bothers me is that the Biden Cabal did as well or better than Trump did in four years of reversing all of Trump’s first term gains.
The only action I see dedicated to insuring permanence, so far, is the expulsion of illegal aliens that the Democrats use as a fake electorate. This might insure, at least, that the voices of Americans not so easily fooled can protect Trump’s gains for the country.
How many more are there that need to be eliminated?
“That “loss and damage” fund had stemmed from a hard-won diplomatic agreement reached in 2023.:
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You are wise to be skeptical ... note the date: 2023. That would have been Joe ‘Autopen’ Biden. Hmm... I wonder who would have been paying for ‘loss & damage?
“”” known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)”
Good grief. How many thousands of these phony organizations did they create? No wonder we are broke.
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