High-ranking officials from the US will not attend the UN climate summit in Brazil, which is set to begin next Monday.
This was reported by European Truth, citing AFP.
On condition of anonymity, a White House representative said that "the US is not sending any senior officials to COP30." According to him, President Trump pays considerable attention to energy partnerships and interacts directly with world leaders on these issues.
Distancing from the environmental agenda
Under Donald Trump's leadership, the US is deliberately distancing itself from the global "green" course. The US is rolling back environmental programs, withdrawing from international environmental institutions, and resuming support for environmentally harmful industries.
On the first day of his second presidential term, Trump signed an order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. He subsequently canceled $4 billion in funding for the Green Climate Fund, which helps countries adapt to climate change. The US also left the UN Fund for Climate Change Mitigation.
Under Trump, the US Department of Energy canceled about $3.7 billion in government support for clean energy projects, and the administration is blocking funding for more than 200 energy eco-projects worth $7.6 billion. Instead, the US president called the coal industry "clean and beautiful" and signed an executive order designed to remove barriers to coal mining and provide the industry with subsidy support.
The new administration is not just ignoring environmental issues — it has even removed references to them from its official language. The very concepts of "climate crisis" and "pollution" are now undesirable to use, as EcoPolitic previously reported. The US government is "cleansing" the information field, rolling back the global air quality monitoring program and eliminating the database that has tracked the cost of natural disasters for 45 years.
