Washington, D.C. — The far-right proposals in Project 2025 would effectively abandon America’s leadership role in addressing the climate crisis and put forth policies that would increase global temperatures and undercut developing countries’ efforts to remain resilient in the face of climate impacts.
A new analysis from the Center for American Progress shows how Project 2025 would trade the federal government’s vast institutional knowledge and forward momentum on climate solutions for dangerous climate denialism and obstructionism. These policies would damage all aspects of U.S. international engagement, including climate cooperation among countries that are stepping up to the climate challenge, financing to help vulnerable communities around the world, national security measures to protect defense assets and geopolitical interests, and trade policies that center workers and job creation.
These harmful proposals are united by a common theme: an abdication of global climate leadership to the benefit of big oil and gas companies. Project 2025 would:
- Abdicate the nation’s global climate leadership by pulling the United States out of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.
- Replace career civil servants with politically aligned appointees, a move that would eliminate the deep expertise and relationships the United States relies on to advance climate change solutions internationally.
- Eliminate funding for programs that help developing nations adapt to the impacts of climate change.
- Weaken national security by ignoring how climate change drives geopolitical tensions.
- Impose trade policies that make the American economy less resilient, less sustainable, and less fair for the American worker and consumer.
“The policies proposed in Project 2025 would seriously jeopardize the world’s ability to avoid the worst impacts of climate change,” said Courtney Federico, associate director for International Climate at CAP and co-author of the column. “To truly protect American interests, preserve the planet, and secure our future, the United States must embrace climate leadership, rather than walk away from it.”
Read the column: “Project 2025 Would Jeopardize Global Climate Action” by Courtney Federico, Frances Colón, Mike Williams, Trevor Sutton, Kalina Gibson, and Ashley Orlet
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