Climate Change Plans Under Trump’s Second Term

• Climate change and public health goals have deadlines by 2030, including reducing carbon emissions, financing climate mitigation and adaptation plans, protecting biodiversity, and instituting sustainable development.
• Donald Trump’s second term could exacerbate these challenges, as he lacks the ability to negotiate, compromise, and take the long view, which are essential for progress.
• The world’s richest countries have refused to meet their own biodiversity management commitments, citing private sector funding.
• Trump’s first term saw the U.S. withdraw from the Paris Agreement, refuse to fund WHO, censor research findings, promote carbon-intensive industries, and fanned pseudoscience.
• Countries fighting climate change must consider binding agreements to survive government changes and meet targets.
• Trump’s U.S. cannot be treated as an isolated stressor, with repercussions for U.S.-Europe trade and adaptation financing impacting other countries’ budgets.
• U.S. states have considerable power to effect subnational action and require support from other governments for their scientists and evidence-based policymaking.