President Donald Trump after the inauguration signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
This is reported by CNN.
The newly elected president also wants to end land and water leases for wind energy and reverse the Biden administration's actions promoting electric cars.
The roller coaster ride of U.S. participation in international climate talks could itself be harmful, says David Wirth, a professor at Boston College Law School and an expert on public international law.
“The integrity of the United States' commitment to this issue will be questioned, as well as (its) reliability as a treaty partner,” Wirth told CNN.
Course to increase production
The publication says that in his inauguration speech, Trump also said that he would declare a “national energy emergency.”
“We’re going to drill, baby, we’re going to drill,” he said.
Although the US now produces more oil than any other country at any other time, CNN says.
Trump intends to streamline the permitting system and revise rules that “impose undue burdens on the production and use of energy, including the extraction and processing of non-fuel minerals.”
The US promises to continue climate action
Two Democratic governors who co-chair the bipartisan US Climate Alliance, a group of 24 states and territories, have said they will lead the US delegation to the annual UN climate talks in Brazil in late 2025.
"It is critical for the international community to know that U.S. climate action will continue. The alliance will carry that message to COP30," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Luyan Grisham said in a statement.
International response
The U.N. official overseeing climate change talks has reiterated that “the door remains open to the Paris Agreement” after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the landmark climate deal for the second time.
“We welcome constructive engagement with all countries,” Simon Still, the UN's executive secretary for climate change, said in a statement.
Still emphasized the importance of the global clean energy boom, estimated at $2 trillion last year and growing, and warned that countries that don't embrace it will be left behind. He was echoed by other climate groups.
“There is no energy emergency. There is a climate emergency. The United States produces more oil and gas than any other country in history. Riding the wave of successful climate and energy policies, the country is producing more clean energy than ever before,” Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
Earlier this year, EcoPolitic wrote that the EU warned of a threat to global climate efforts after Trump's inauguration.
