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Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action

The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the UN climate process and its financial contributions, while at the same time backing fossil fuels and obstructing renewables

Mar 14, 2025

US approves multi-billion-dollar loan for troubled Mozambique gas plant

The US export credit agency has unlocked key funding for TotalEnergies’ massive LNG project which was halted after militant attacks

Mar 7, 2025

US withdraws from coal-to-clean JETP deals for developing nations

Just Energy Transition Partnerships for South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam will have to move forward without US backing as Trump walks away from international climate funding

Feb 5, 2025

Finance

“No future”: Climate projects face existential threat after Trump’s aid shutdown

The Trump administration’s attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries

Nov 7, 2020

Climate watchers celebrate Biden victory over Trump in US election

Climate advocates from around the world welcomed Joe Biden’s victory, heralding a US return to international cooperation on the climate crisis

Jul 13, 2018

‘Trump’s climate denial threatens all of us’: protestors hit London’s streets

A massive baby Trump balloon, organised by climate activists, was part of rolling protests that greeted the president in the UK on Friday

Jan 26, 2018

Why climate pariah Trump is welcome at the World Economic Forum

Far from being shunned, US president Donald Trump has been warmly welcomed at the Davos ski resort by business chiefs who benefit from his policies

Jan 23, 2018

Trump solar tariff ‘will cause disruption’, says UN renewable chief

Energy leaders in Davos were critical of trade intervention the US solar industry said could cause 23,000 job losses

Dec 13, 2017

US ‘no position’ on how much humans are changing climate, says Trump envoy

George David Banks speaks with Arthur Neslen about keeping the US in the Paris deal, morale in the state department and why he said he didn’t know what 2C means

Nov 2, 2017

Is the Paris climate deal legally binding or not?

“Like hell it’s non-binding,” Donald Trump has said of the 2015 UN deal to cut carbon pollution. Is he right?

Oct 17, 2017

US climate talks delegation to be led by under secretary Thomas Shannon

Obama-appointed diplomat will lead the US at first climate talks since Trump’s Paris withdrawal speech, he once called climate change “one of the world’s great challenges”

Oct 16, 2017

Trump stance on Paris climate deal ‘sad’, says pope

Speaking on World Food Day, Francis said climate change was a driver of hunger and migration and the Paris climate agreement was the legal basis for the solution

Oct 4, 2017

Big oil vs bearded seal: Case to test Trump climate stance

Supreme Court to decide whether to hear oil companies and Alaskan native case against Trump administration for listing seal as threatened due to climate change

Sep 25, 2017

Anger at EU climate chief’s suggestion US can backtrack on Paris

EU commissioner has signalled that the US can downgrade its pledge to the Paris deal, but poor countries say such an act would “undermine global solidarity”

Sep 4, 2017

Developing disasters: How cities are making hurricanes more destructive

Scientists warn of expanding “bull’s-eyes” as the US builds in parts of the country at ever-greater risk because of climate change and severe weather

Aug 29, 2017

US state department to abolish climate change envoy

Critics say Rex Tillerson’s restructuring will further diminish US’ standing in international affairs

Jul 26, 2017

Paris climate deal needs to be politically, not legally, binding

Whether countries have the legal right to back out of their climate commitments is irrelevant. It’s up to defenders to make sure it hurts them politically

Jun 27, 2017

Modi and Adani: the old friends laying waste to India’s environment

India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?

Jun 16, 2017

Politics

Climate Weekly: A positive instalment

This week’s top climate change stories. Sign up to have our newsletter sent to your inbox

May 26, 2017

Pope’s climate essay won’t convince Trump, it didn’t even work on Catholics

Pope’s encyclical on climate change appealed to liberals, but conservative Catholics were driven away by the values it invoked

May 24, 2017

Pope Francis gives Trump a climate change message

US president promised to read the pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’, which exhorts humanity to care for the environment

May 10, 2017