If the President Donald Trump’s plans get executed perfectly, America
will not be funding the Climate Change Programs from the coming year.
As per the 2018 Budget Proposal presented by the White House on
Thursday, there would be a combined cut of $10.1 billion that is 28% of
the funding of two leading agencies that are employed on International
Climate Work. The two agencies are the State Department and U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID).
The budget is likely to
affect other agencies like Environmental Protection Agency and other
departments with domestic climate programs as well but the two aforesaid
agencies would experience the cut on its peak.
A top budget
official during Obama’s administration, Kei Koizumi said, "It's clear
that the administration intends to halt or reverse everything domestic
and foreign related to addressing the challenge of climate change,"
"It's breathtakingly consistent."
The budget is being termed as a skinny budget and is claimed to showcase the priorities of the new President’s office.
The
President's 2018 Budget states, "...Eliminates the Global Climate
Change Initiative and fulfills the President's pledge to cease payments
to the United Nations' (UN) climate change programs by eliminating U.S.
funding related to the Green Climate Fund and its two precursor Climate
Investment Funds."
Reacting to the news, the spokesperson of
UNFCCC, Nick Nuttall said, "We understand that the new U.S.
administration today published its first budget
proposal," "We
also understand that approval of such a budget can be a long and complex
process and we will follow it with interest." He added further.
The
budget is also claimed to target the Green Climate Fund, which is made
to help the developing countries to prepare for drastic climate changes.
The budget seems to have targeted the climate sector specifically. The
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