"In his disjointed speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Donald Trump once again lashed out against renewable forms of energy, the European Union and its Green Deal, which aims to transform the energy and mobility system to break dependence on fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change. Trump, like the European far-right, dismissed the accord, calling it a Green New Scam. But the truth is that, despite his attacks, renewables continued to grow in 2025 and set records, while fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation stagnated."
"The U.S. president, whose last campaign was funded in large part by the oil industry and who has a former fracking executive as his secretary of energy, used his appearance at Davos to urge the EU and the U.K. to abandon renewable energy via lies and insults. He lashed out harshly against wind turbines, with which he seems to be obsessed. Those damn things, he called them. Stupid people buy them, he said. But renewable energy makes economic sense, particularly when it comes to European budgets."
Donald Trump attacked renewable energy, the European Union and its Green Deal at the World Economic Forum, calling the accord a Green New Scam. Renewables continued to grow in 2025 and set records while fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation stagnated. The U.S. president received significant oil industry funding and his secretary of energy is a former fracking executive. Trump urged the EU and the U.K. to abandon renewable energy and denigrated wind turbines. Implementation of renewables between 2019 and 2024 saved the EU $70 billion in coal and gas import reductions. In 2025 wind and solar generated more electricity in the EU than fossil fuels.
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