Trump Administration Withdraws from UN Climate Damage Fund

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The Trump administration just pulled the U.S. out of the UN’s climate damage fund.

They’re not sending over any more funds to this grift.

The fund was meant to “compensate poorer nations for the environmental mess richer countries helped create.”

Yes, it’s clear that it’s just one big guilt trip machine to drain us of our cash.

Officials say it’s about sovereignty.

And America just sent a message: “Not our problem.”

Now, developing nations are left wondering how to blame America as being the biggest polluters while they ignore China and their air pollution that could be cut with a knife.

The Guardian reports:

The Trump administration has withdrawn the US from a global agreement under which the developed nations most responsible for the climate crisis pledged to partly compensate developing countries for irreversible harms caused by global heating.

The loss and damage fund was agreed at the Cop28 UN climate summit in late 2023 – a hard-won victory after years of diplomatic and grassroots advocacy by developing nations that bear the brunt of the climate crisis despite having contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions. The fund signalled a commitment by developed, polluting countries to provide financial support for some of the irreversible economic and noneconomic losses from sea level rise, desertification, drought and floods already happening.

The US has a long record of delay tactics and obstructionism, and had so far pledged only $17.5m (£13.5m) to the loss and damage fund, which became operational on 1 January this year. Now the US, the biggest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, will no longer participate in the initiative.

“On behalf of the United States Department of the Treasury, I write to inform you that the United States is withdrawing from the board for the fund for responding to loss and damage, effective immediately,” said Rebecca Lawlor, the deputy director at the US Office of Climate and Environment, in a letter to the fund.

The decision to abandon the loss and damage fund was condemned by climate advocates from the global north and south.

“The US decision to step away from this commitment at such a crucial moment sends the wrong message to the global community and to those in dire need of assistance,” said Mohamed Adow, a climate policy analyst and director of the thinktank Power Shift Africa. “We urge the United States to reconsider its position in the interest of the planet and future generations … this regrettable decision risks undermining collective progress and erodes the trust necessary for effective international cooperation.”

Rachel Rose Jackson, a research director at Corporate Accountability, said: “Let’s be clear – the US has never been a climate champion. Yet the Trump administration’s anti-climate action agenda – including its withdrawal from the loss and damage fund board – is a wrecking ball made of dynamite. It’s dangerous, it’s malicious and it will destroy lives.

They really love to exaggerate on their sales pitch.

Whether it’s the global warming hoax or trans agenda, if you don’t support it, “It’s genocide! Millions will die!”

They don’t even try to build the pitch and add “but wait, there’s more!” they just go straight for the fear.

Funny to see how liberals are “disappointed” in Trump’s administration’s move.



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