In video – The climate facing the return of Donald Trump

Published on November 11, 2024 at 5:23 p.m. / Modified on November 11, 2024 at 6:50 p.m.

COP29 started on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The challenges of this climate conference are linked to the financing of developing countries, but given the American context, a question arises: what should we expect for the climate with the return of Donald Trump to the White House?

Even if this theme has been largely excluded from the American campaign, the intentions of the new president are rather clear: for him, global warming is “the biggest scam in history”. Even though the United States was recently hit by two devastating hurricanes. The Republican said temperatures had recently dropped. However, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record and to cross the threshold of 1.5 degrees of warming for the first time.

We must expect that Trump will once again take his country out of the Paris Agreement, as in 2017. During his first term, he repealed more than 100 environmental standards, on climate change but also on the protection of water and air.

Then, supported by oil companies, it aims to relaunch pro-fossil energy policies. He announced that he wanted to withdraw from the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA), a law adopted under Biden which provides for massive investments in the energy transition, in particular through support for renewable energies.