3 reasons why a Trump administration may not slow climate progress as much as it could

Get the Full StoryWhile the incoming president has called climate change a hoax and vowed to repeal climate laws, there are reasons to believe that the world can continue to make progress.

With COP29, the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, now underway, those trying to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels have a new reason to worry: The man elected to be the next president of the United States, Donald Trump, has declared that climate change is a big hoax. Given his posture, many experts fear that a Trump White House will, once again, exit the Paris climate agreement, as he has vowed to do. The new administration is poised to slash environmental regulations and allow for a surge of oil and gas drilling. Although Trump distanced himself during the campaign from Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint to reshape government, his administration is widely expected to embrace its call for a whole-of-government unwinding of what it termed the Biden administration s climate fanaticism. We are not na ve. Reaching the essential goal reaffirmed last year by global leaders at the COP28 Summit net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has undoubtedly become a lot harder with Trump set to return to the Oval Office.And yet we remain hopeful that all is not lost. Even with Trump in power and the Republicans about to take control of both houses of Congress we are confident that the country and the world will make steady progress on climate change for three main reasons.

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