Donald Trump Archives

After US cuts cash, Green Climate Fund head urges others to step up

Mafalda Duarte stresses the strategic and economic importance of keeping money flowing to developing countries after Trump cancelled $4bn pledge to the fund

Apr 23, 2025

Energy

US and Europe set for clash on what “energy security” means

While European politicians seek to strengthen the link between clean energy and security, Trump officials are expected to push for more gas at a key summit in London

Jan 23, 2025

After Trump’s pullback, Bloomberg promises to fill US funding gap to UN climate body

The announcement comes after Trump said the US should “immediately cease or revoke” any financial commitment made under the UNFCCC

Jan 15, 2025

What Trump’s second term means for climate action in the US and beyond

The new president is expected to exit the Paris Agreement, slash climate finance and wage war on science – but clean energy may get an easier ride

Nov 6, 2024

US election: Climate experts react to Donald Trump’s victory

Trump is expected to cut spending on green energy and boost US production of fossil fuels, while pulling his country out of the Paris climate accord

Nov 4, 2024

Legal experts say Trump could quit Paris pact – but leaving UNFCCC much harder

As the US Senate approved the US joining the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it’s unclear if a president could easily pull the country out

Nov 5, 2020

Energy

5 ways climate issues played out in the US election

Most Americans see climate change as a serious threat, fracking did not swing the vote in key states but climate-vulnerable Florida went to Trump despite his denialism

Feb 24, 2020

Energy

World faces ‘decisive decade’ to fix global warming, former UN climate chief says

Christiana Figueres issues blueprint for a peaceful global revolution to tackle ‘dire emergency’ of climate change, guided by the Paris Agreement she helped craft

Feb 4, 2020

Democratic contenders in Iowa caucus aim to rejoin Paris accord in green goals

Candidates pledged to boost climate finance for developing nations and break US dependence on fossil fuels

Nov 8, 2019

Politics

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Nov 4, 2019

Trump begins formal US withdrawal from Paris Agreement

US will leave climate deal one day after 2020 presidential election, although a Democrat winner could reenter almost immediately

Aug 24, 2017

NGO demands Trump-Pruitt emails on Paris withdrawal

The Center for Biological Diversity is seeking documents that influenced the US president’s decision to leave the Paris climate agreement

Aug 17, 2017

A bottle of brandy that Trump won’t leave the Paris deal. Any takers?

Trump’s US remains firmly in the Paris climate deal. Richard Black reckons that’s how it will stay and he’s prepared to put his brandy where his mouth is

Aug 11, 2017

Trump lays groundwork for staying in Paris Agreement

After notifying the UN that he intends to leave the Paris climate deal, the prospect of Donald Trump doing so seems increasingly uncertain

Aug 7, 2017

Trump letter to UN on leaving Paris climate accord – in full

Trump’s communication with the UN and media release clarified some details and set the scene for political manoeuvring to come

Aug 4, 2017

Trump to submit notice of Paris withdrawal to UN

White House to write to UN to inform of US intention to withdraw from climate deal, but remain engaged in hope of securing “more favourable” terms

Jul 6, 2017

If US states are really ‘still in’ Paris, here’s what they need to do

The Paris accord isn’t only about cutting emissions, some states are already finding ways to meet climate finance commitments

Jun 29, 2017

Germany ‘massively weakened’ draft G20 climate plan to appease Trump

Latest draft of German plan for next week’s Hamburg meeting contains major concessions to US and opens door for coal projects to be defined as “clean”

Jun 25, 2017

End of coal: Failure to see it coming will hurt miners most

History shows governments that don’t anticipate and make provisions for the decline of coal burden communities for generations

Jun 15, 2017

US cities and states back Paris deal but ignore climate finance

Several US states and cities have committed to cut emissions despite president Trump, but only Seattle remembered cash commitments to the developing world

Jun 14, 2017

Seattle pledges support for climate fund barred by Trump

Council resolution goes beyond backing emissions reductions, stepping up to honour the financial commitments made by the US

Jun 14, 2017

FORE! Trump’s Paris speech was an awful mishit

The golf-loving president says he will pull the US from the Paris agreement. The UN’s renewable energy chief explains why that’s dumb in terms he’d understand

Jun 12, 2017