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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly newsletter by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
On Monday, January 20, 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term as US President. A staunch climate denier, Trump has called climate change a scam, promised to ramp up US’s oil and gas production and export, threatened to remove Biden-era climate laws and withdraw from international climate discussions. In this video, CSE’s Director-General Sunita Narain speaks about what Trump’s return means for climate action. She explains how multilateral climate action will take a blow due to the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the US’s domestic energy policies will undergo a shift away from supporting clean energy back towards fossil fuels, and other rich nations may use Trump as an excuse to slack on their climate ambitions. However, the adoption of green technologies has picked up pace since Trump’s first term and may just survive a second Trump presidency.
Further, in my latest article, I write about the five ways in which the Trump could impact climate action by rolling back US climate laws, expanding the US’s fossil fuel production and export, engaging in tariff wars, receding from the global climate fora, and pushing back the agenda to reform the international financial architecture.
Among these issues, an important aspect to keep in mind will be Trump’s threats of raising tariffs on US’s trade partners and how that reshapes global trade and the green transition. Trishant Dev of CSE’s Climate Change Programme writes about the Trump administration’s intent to raise tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, the challenges for Indian trade given the potential imposition of tariff hikes, and why this might not be the end for the global green goods market—yet.
To contrast Trump’s inauguration, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are projected to reach 429.6 parts per million (ppm) in May 2025, according to the Met Office, UK. This will be the highest concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide in over 2 million years, amounting to an increase of 2.26 ppm between 2024 and 2025.
Lastly, India’s power generation continues to be dominated by coal, according to data from the Central Electricity Agency (CEA). While fossil fuel-powered electricity will continue to play an important role—providing 56 per cent of electricity generated in 2030, the contribution of renewables will rise to 32 per cent over that same period.
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By - Upamanyu Das
Climate Change, CSE
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| Blizzard warning issued for US Gulf Coast for first time as snowstorm Enzo breaks 200-year-old records, 23 January 2025
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Los Angeles wildfires on track to be fourth costliest natural disaster in over a century: Preliminary estimates, 23 January 2025
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