Climate financing: USA against new clima • Table.Briefings

US-Präsident Donald Trump unterzeichnet die Executive Order zum Austritt aus der Weltgesundheitsorganisation. — The Trump administration wants to block reforms to improve international climate financing.

The Trump administration wants to block reforms to improve international climate financing. It opposes a reform of the international financial system, rejects new climate levies (solidarity levies), and wants to reverse the long-standing consensus on the abolition of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

The USA is attempting to hinder reforms to the global financial system and access to climate financing for poorer countries. According to Reuters, this emerges from a draft text for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Seville in June, which the news agency was able to view.

Climate financing: USA against new climate taxes and abolition of fossil fuel subsidies.

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