{"id":365718,"date":"2025-02-11T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365718"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:33:50","slug":"trump-rescinds-4b-of-outstanding-pledges-to-the-un-green-climate-fund-and-hardly-anyone-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365718","title":{"rendered":"Trump rescinds $4b of outstanding pledges to the UN Green Climate Fund, and hardly anyone noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are we tired of winning yet?  Not a bit\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like that, Donald Trump gutted the\u00a0UN Green Climate Fund<\/a>. Among all the blockbuster scandals this last week, hardly anyone even registered that it happened.\u00a0Politico<\/em>, the government funded fake news organization, mentioned it on Feb 5th, and its barely made a ripple. There\u2019s been no parade of extinctionists dressed as red witches, and no one has glued themselves to a freeway. The mainstream media have barely mentioned it. It\u2019s almost like they don\u2019t want to say it, in case other countries think \u2014 \u201cgreat idea \u201c<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of outrage \u2014  \u201cthink of the children\u201d \u2014 The State Department said \u201cno comment\u201d and so did the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Green Climate Fund is the world\u2019s largest unguarded bucket of money labeled \u201cclimate change\u201d. It was founded in 2010 and so far, has squandered $16 billion on renewables and adaption projects in developing countries without spending 10 cents checking the evidence and assumptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Karl Matheisen, Politico<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. had committed<\/strong> the most money to the global fund, which helps over 100 countries grapple with the changing world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government of the United States rescinds any outstanding pledges to the Green Climate Fund,\u201d U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in a note dated Jan. 27, parts of which were seen by POLITICO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate fund confirmed the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. withdrawal follows President Donald Trump\u2019s order revoking and rescinding the country\u2019s federal climate finance program, signed on his first day in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four billion may not sound like much in the scheme of things \u2014 especially when USAID is tossing around ten times as much,  but it goes a long way among scientists, student activists and the rent-a-crowd protestors. It buys a lot of press releases, and it adds a large layer of dedicated cheerleaders for a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d all around the world. In terms of performance art, it\u2019s a lot of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wild thing at the moment though, is all that money supposedly just vanished and hardly anyone is saying a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There don\u2019t seem to be many abandoned beneficiaries screaming for help, wondering if storms will be worse next year. It\u2019s almost like we are not supposed to notice. The UNFCCC Green Climate Fund page<\/a> on the UN site is so low key it barely exists.  The latest report is 178 pages<\/a> of blah. Does anyone, anywhere read it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a fund that was originally supposed to be $100 billion dollars, yet somehow the logo looks like it was done by a high schooler. It\u2019s like this money is hidden behind a wall of boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just like that, Donald Trump gutted the UN Green Climate Fund. Among all the blockbuster scandals this last week, hardly anyone even registered that it happened. Politico, the government funded fake news organization, mentioned it on Feb 5th, and its barely made a ripple. There\u2019s been no parade of extinctionists dressed as red witches, and no one has glued themselves to a freeway. The mainstream media have barely mentioned it. It\u2019s almost like they don\u2019t want to say it, in case other countries think \u2014 \u201cgreat idea\u201c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":365721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691824770,691825074,691828976,691831255],"class_list":{"0":"post-365718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-politico","10":"tag-un-green-climate-fund-2","11":"tag-unfccc","12":"tag-us-president-donald-trump","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0GCF.jpg?fit=1060%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1x8G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":420681,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=420681","url_meta":{"origin":365718,"position":0},"title":"IT’S OVER! 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