"Donald Trump's administration opted to not send anyone to the UN climate summit in Brazil that culminated over the weekend a first for the US in 30 years of these annual gatherings and another representation of the president's disdain for the climate crisis, which he has called a hoax and a con job. But even without the administration touting drill, baby, drill at the grey conference center in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon river,"
"Michael Jacobs, of the thinktank ODI Global and the University of Sheffield, said that the Cop30 summit revealed an increasingly bitter conflict at the heart of global climate politics: between those who accept the scientific fact that to deal with climate change the world must wean itself off fossil fuels over the coming decades; and those who are actively resisting this in pursuit of their short-term energy interests."
Donald Trump's administration did not send any representative to the UN climate summit in Brazil, the first US absence in 30 years of annual gatherings. The president has called the climate crisis a hoax and a con job and promoted 'drill, baby, drill' rhetoric. Delegates from 194 countries failed to secure language phasing out coal, oil and gas. The words 'fossil fuel' were omitted from the agreement after fierce opposition led by Saudi Arabia. Analysts described a growing split between nations accepting the need to wean off fossil fuels and those resisting to protect short-term energy interests. The US is grouped with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Russia in resisting stronger climate action, aligning with a loose coalition of roughly 90 countries opposed to a phase-out roadmap.
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