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It additionally comes as inexperienced advocates worry the brand new steadiness of energy in Washington will result in a rollback of environmental rules and the top of local weather management on the world stage.
“Cracking down on methane leakage, decarbonizing our economic system, and combatting sea degree rise are firmly on my agenda for COP29,” stated Whitehouse in an announcement to POLITICO’s E&E News. “But we are able to’t ignore that Donald Trump, Republicans, and their fossil gas mega-donors are aiming a torpedo on the local weather progress Democrats have made within the final 4 years.”
He added, “We is not going to hand over the combat for local weather motion and towards the fossil gas corruption that’s quickly to take energy in Washington.”
Whitehouse had already introduced plans to move to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the local weather talks, that are set to happen from Nov. 11-22. His workplace confirmed Thursday he’ll nonetheless be main a “smaller delegation of simply Democrats” from Nov. 16-17.
House Energy and Commerce rating member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) stated in September he, too, could be attending the summit. His spokesperson had no additional particulars to share this week about whether or not he could be touring with colleagues.
But the importance of this 12 months’s summit has intensified within the aftermath of the election, which is able to usher in a dramatic shift in local weather coverage. Trump, who has referred to as local weather change a “hoax,” withdrew the U.S. from the Paris local weather accord throughout his final time within the White House and deprioritized local weather motion throughout the federal authorities.
