The abolition of the Climate Diplomacy Office underlines the skeptical attitude of Trump’s administration to international climatic initiatives.
US President Donald Trump’s administration was canceled by the office that managed US climate diplomacy, which may mean that the world’s largest economy will not participate in the November climate summit COP30 in Brazil. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that his global change office, which was in charge of representing the United States in the UN climate diplomacy, is closing.
“We will not participate in international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect the values of our country,” said a spokesman for the US Foreign Affairs. “As a result, this office, which supported the efforts of previous administrators to brake the United States through participation in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other agreements to limit or prevent climate change,” he added.
A detailed step came right after returning
This step is no surprise, as Trump is a climate skeptic and immediately after returning to the office on January 20, for the second time, he decided to resign the United States from a breakthrough Paris climate agreement, AFP says. However, the complete absence of the US at the November summit in the Amazon city of Belé would be a fundamental shift in global climate diplomacy.
The United States participated in the climate negotiations even at the time of the presidency of Skeptic George W. Bush, although often in order to weaken the agreement. Fossil fuel producers, such as Saudi Arabia, also remain part of this process despite frequent disagreements.
Former US President Joe Biden has promoted the position of an envoy for the climate to the level of a cabinet member and nominated John Kerry, former Foreign Minister, Senator and Presidential Candidate. During the COP28 conference in Dubai in 2023, Kerry worked closely with China, the world’s largest emission producer in order to achieve a historically first challenge to divert the world from fossil fuels responsible for a large part of global warming.
