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The Independent has found that the Trump administration is continuing to pour billions of dollars into climate-friendly projects.
The projects help countries invest in coastal resilience, renewable power grid infrastructure, critical mineral supply chains that are crucial for solar and wind power and more.
The investments show how climate action is now more or less “built-in” to global economic activity, regardless of any one country’s particular political agenda, according to Martin Koehring, a member of the U.K. think tank ODI Global.
“A project may be justified politically in terms of energy security, competitiveness, infrastructure, agricultural productivity or supply-chain resilience, while still having clear climate implications,” he told The Independent. “That reflects the fact that climate risks and transition dynamics are increasingly embedded in the real economy.”
“The low-carbon transition is now deeply wired into the economy, investment patterns, industrial innovation and technological development,” agreed Patrick Schroeder, from the Chatham House, a policy institute.
“It can be slowed, distorted and made more costly by Trump’s hostile policy, but it cannot be stopped altogether, even by an aggressively anti-climate administration," he said.
Although, there is no denying that in most areas, Trump has had a profoundly negative impact on global climate efforts.
The effective closure of the United States Agency for International Development has erased pools of climate money that were already far smaller than what is required to meet the challenge of the climate crisis.
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