Trump the ‘biggest loser’ for scrapping climate action, John Kerry says at Cop31
Summary
At the COP31 climate summit in Turkey, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry criticized President Donald Trump for withdrawing the United States from international climate efforts and reversing clean-energy policies. Kerry said the changes could weaken U.S. competition with China, while summit speakers called for faster cuts to fossil-fuel use.Key Facts
- The United States did not send a delegation to the COP31 talks in Antalya, according to the article.
- Kerry said Trump’s climate policies were ceding clean-energy opportunities to China.
- The Biden administration had passed tax incentives for clean energy and electric-vehicle manufacturing.
- Republicans later removed most of that support, and the Trump administration imposed tariffs and provided public money to coal-fired power plants.
- Trump said he would not approve wind turbines and called them a major loser.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it was long past time to phase out fossil fuels.
- Greta Thunberg criticized the climate conferences, saying they had become greenwashed circuses.
- The White House said the summit failed to acknowledge what it described as the harms of climate policies.
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