Analysis: Trump Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Agreement May be an Epoch Defining Event

Trump Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Agreement May be an Epoch Defining Event

By Ben Pile

As needs no retelling here, this week saw the return of Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. Among many of his first acts were important and far-reaching interventions on climate and energy, continuing where he left office in 2020 and re-reversing the changes he made in his last term, which were emphatically unreversed by Biden. So, what were these actions, and what do they mean for the global climate agenda, for Europe, and for Net Zero here in the UK?

In response to what the new President argued was inflation caused by “massive overspending and escalating energy prices”, in his inauguration speech he declared “a national energy emergency”, the solution to which, was: “We will drill, baby, drill.” “America will be a manufacturing nation once again,” he continued, powered by “the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth”. “We will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate.”

 

 

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