"The climate crisis is the greatest con job perpetrated by the world, Trump told the UN in September, urging other governments to stick to oil and gas (preferably drilled in the US, of course) and ditch the scam of renewable energy. So, the US's absence from the Cop30 climate summit under way in Belem, Brazil was initially met by other delegates here with a kind of relief akin to when the school bully takes a day off sick."
"Trump's energy secretary, Chris Wright, said last week that Cop30 is essentially a hoax and while there is no US delegation for the first time ever at the annual talks, next year he might show up just to try to deliver some common sense. Not having a recalcitrant US in Belem has allowed the rest of the world to crack on with trying to make up some of the yawning gap between what the science demands to avoid disastrous climate impacts and our lagging response."
The Trump administration has abandoned efforts to address the climate crisis and actively sought to undermine global transitions to solar and wind energy. Presidential statements labeled the climate crisis a "con job" and urged continued reliance on oil and gas, preferably domestically produced. The United States lacked an official delegation at the Cop30 summit in Belem, which some delegates received with relief and allowed other countries to advance negotiations. US officials have called the summit a hoax, yet diplomats remain wary because the United States continues to observe and could seek to influence or derail international climate processes.
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