Valerie Volcovici
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump, during his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, viewed climate change as the world’s “greatest scam”, and his suspicion of his global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions continued to double.
Scientists say climate change is real, mainly caused by humans, and is getting worse. They pointed out that temperatures, stronger storms and melting ice were as obvious signs. Groups like the United Nations warn that waiting too long can wreak havoc on the planet and people.
Trump, who gave a few minutes in his recent speech on climate change during his speech to the UN General Assembly, criticized the European Union for reducing its carbon footprint, claimed it had a huge damage to its economy and warned that states would suffer a lot of investment in renewable energy.
“It seems to me that this is the greatest scam ever, the world has ever seen,” Trump told the conference. “All these predictions that the United Nations and many others usually make for bad reasons are wrong.”
He added: “They are made by stupid people who lose the fate of their own countries and give those countries the chance to succeed.”
The United States withdraws from climate treaty for the second time
The U.S. withdraws troops from the Paris Agreement for the second time after Trump took office in January, a 2015 agreement reached the agreement of 195 countries in an effort to raise global temperatures above 1.5 c, making it a company that only Yemen, Iran and Libya.
His administration is implementing the “Energy Advantage” agenda, which focuses on the production and export of oil, gas and coal, as well as nuclear, while getting rid of renewable energy, which has become cost-competitive.
“We have the most oil and gas in the world anywhere, and if you add coal, we will have any country in the world.”
His speech comes a day before UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hosted a climate summit at the United Nations, which will focus on the country’s new climate action plan.
Guterres is trying to focus the world on continuing the global transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
“Just follow this money,” Guterres said in June, adding that $2 trillion in flows into clean energy last year, an increase of $800 billion over fossil fuels, up nearly 70% over a decade.
(Reported by Valerie Volcovici in Washington, Gram Slattery and Jarrett Renshaw of the United Nations, edited by Deepa Babington)
