"The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration's hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis. The US has always sent delegations of various sizes to UN climate summits over the past three decades, even during periods under George W Bush and in Donald Trump's first term, where there was scant desire to address the global heating crisis."
"The Green New Scam would have killed America if President Trump had not been elected to implement his commonsense energy agenda which is focused on utilizing the liquid gold under our feet to strengthen our grid stability and drive down costs for American families and businesses, Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Guardian. The scam reference relates to the climate policies of Joe Biden."
No high-level US representatives will attend upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil. The absence marks an unprecedented official American non-presence at such summits after three decades of delegation participation. President Trump has publicly rejected mainstream climate science, called the climate crisis a hoax, and signaled withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The White House portrays climate-focused policies as harmful to the US economy, describing the Green New Deal as a "scam" and promoting an energy agenda centered on expanding fossil fuel production. The State Department climate office and the climate envoy position have been closed, while the administration pursues bilateral energy and resource agreements with other countries.
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