EU warns of 'serious blow' from Trump on climate change

Trump is correct to at least threaten to withdraw. Once again, the US taxpayer is being fleeced. China, the EU and other major polluters are "set to miss a February deadline" to submit their plans that are due. The US has submitted our plans, yet all the focus is on the "cash cow" US, and whether Trump will withdraw because others are not carrying their burden. Same as NATO alliance.

The US does not have limitless money as the world seems to think we do. Our national debt is staggering ($36T and climbing). The remora countries need to find a new host to cling to.

Climate "change" is real and timeless. The nature and severity of human activities as a contributor to climate change are debatable. We are no doubt impacting climate change, but do we need to bring down the world economies by overreacting?

As if the current US regime cared that much, They don't even want to promote EVs or solar panels - overcapacity, they call it.

The US is on hiatus from climate change mediation until the next regime and anything Biden prepared will be ditched by Trump. Accept it and move on. China can take the global lead for the next few years. So stop sanctioning and tariffing their green tech. It is just delaying the green transition in the West. Leave Trump to hike his tariffs to his heart's content. The American people will take the majority of the hit. The Rest of the World is a big enough marketplace to function without the US for a few years.

Maybe list some 'aspirational behaviours' that American millionaires can fund if they have some loose change, and don't want to be as widely reviled as Glorious Leader.

The future targets set at COPs are irrelevant as they are political fictions. Governments can only do what is politically viable. Push too hard and sitting regimes will be replaced by populist Neo-Nazis. Both France and Germany are now looking vulnerable. They really need to make life a little easier for their citizens and find some talent to benefit the environment in ways that are not politically suicidal. The problem is that there is very little talent and too much corruption in mainstream political regimes.

Each time 'Private Eye' notes a position in the UK government being filled by a donor or a friend or a lobbyist, you know that the sum total of talent, competence and trustworthiness goes down. This is undermining the survivability of regimes across Europe. Political skills matter, and they lack them.

Instead of grand plans and targets, none of which will be met, and jaunts around the world to conferences, perhaps pop up on the web an official list of things individuals, households, companies and local groups could do instead. Not just the big stuff, but small changes too, that everyone could make.

And connect wealthy people to on-the-ground projects in the Global South that would benefit the environment and local communities, excluding governments and third parties that will simply leech any donations into their own pockets.

Pukey2Jan. 11 01:33 am JST

As if the current US regime cared that much, They don't even want to promote EVs or solar panels - overcapacity, they call it.

It's just a polite way to say "enough with subsidized China trash".