While the Trump administration isn't exactly climate friendly, many VCs that invest in climate tech still see silver linings.
Billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs are at stake in red states.
President-elect Trump’s victory is expected to result in the U.S. exiting the Paris Agreement once again and more broadly disengaging from global climate efforts. Experts say they don’t expect this to derail international work to address global warming,
Gov. Kathy Hochul is contending with pressures from environmental advocates and President-elect Donald Trump as she charts a path forward.
Some of Donald Trump’s first steps on climate change when he enters the White House will send a message that the federal government no longer cares about the issue. He will pull out of the Paris Agreement. Allies say he’ll strip the phrases “climate change,” “clean energy” and “environmental justice” from every agency website.
Donald Trump’s resounding election victory marks not only the Obama-Biden era’s end but the beginning of the end of the radical climate agenda. After all, one candidate promised to “drill, baby,
“Trump will definitely slow down climate progress,” said Andy DeVries, an analyst for CreditSights Inc. The power demand from data centers, however, will have an even bigger impact, he said. “It just comes out to math. If these data center demand figures are anywhere near realistic, you don’t have the ability to retire coal plants.”
The brown blockade is the phrase I’ve used to describe the hardening tendency of the states most deeply integrated into the existing oil and gas economy, as either major producers or consumers of fossil fuels, to support Republican presidential and congressional candidates who are resolutely opposed to federal action to combat climate change.
Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to address climate change and environmental issues may fare.
Now that Donald Trump has taken back the White House, what will become of America’s effort to combat climate change and promote clean energy? Environmental advocates are pondering the question, given Trump’s pro-fossil fuel mentality,
Since the election, 650+ investors, $33T in assets "issued an urgent call for government action to implement policies aligned with the Paris Agreement." Will it stick?
As this year's United Nations climate summit, COP 29, comes to an end, world leaders are uncertain about the future of climate change progress given the result of the latest U.S. presidential election.