Trump Budget Would Cripple U.S. International Climate Change Work

If President Donald Trump gets his wish, America will effectively stop funding international climate change programs next year.

The Trump administration's budget proposal includes
slashing all aid to international climate programs,
signaling a retreat from the Paris climate accord. 

The White House in its 2018 budget proposal released Thursday called for combined cuts of $10.1 billion, or 28 percent, to the two leading agencies on international climate work—the State Department and U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID). This is on top of even deeper cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments with domestic climate programs.

"It's clear that the administration intends to halt or reverse everything domestic and foreign related to addressing the challenge of climate change," said Kei Koizumi, a top budget official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration. "It's breathtakingly consistent.”

Read Zahra Hirji’s story on Inside Climate News - “Trump Budget Would Cripple U.S. International Climate Change Work.”