{"id":156206,"date":"2025-09-23T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156206\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:30:07","slug":"trump-tells-un-that-climate-change-is-greatest-con-job-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156206\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells UN that climate change is &#8216;greatest con job&#8217; globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SECOND US WITHDRAWAL FROM CLIMATE PACT<\/p>\n<p>Once Trump took office in January, the US submitted its withdrawal for a second time from the Paris Agreement, a 2015 pact agreed by 195 countries to strive to keep global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 C, leaving it in the company of only Yemen, Iran and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>His administration is carrying out an &#8220;energy dominance&#8221; agenda that focuses on producing and exporting oil, gas and coal, as well as nuclear, while sidelining renewable energy, which has become cost-competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the most oil of any nation anywhere, oil and gas in the world, and if you add coal, we have the most of any nation in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come a day before UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hosts a climate summit at the UN that will focus on countries&#8217; new climate action plans.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres has tried to keep the world focused on continuing a global transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust follow the money,\u201d Guterres said in June, adding that US$2 trillion flowed into clean energy last year, US$800 billion more than fossil fuels and up almost 70 percent in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SECOND US WITHDRAWAL FROM CLIMATE PACT Once Trump took office in January, the US submitted its withdrawal for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,141,1397,90,56,54,6145,55],"class_list":["post-156206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-nations","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}