World Resources Institute Addresses Recent Trump Administration Actions

The World Resources Institute (WRI) issued a statement on February 6, 2025, criticizing the Trump administration's actions to reduce U.S. climate action and foreign assistance, including the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the freezing of international climate finance.

• The Trump administration has implemented several measures to reduce U.S. climate action and foreign aid, including freezing most U.S. foreign assistance and international climate finance, moving to abolish USAID, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, and freezing most domestic climate spending.
• WRI President & CEO Ani Dasgupta argues that the U.S. retreat from climate action and multilateralism will negatively impact American communities through higher energy bills, food prices, and disaster impacts, while causing the U.S. to miss out on green jobs and the global clean energy economy.
• The U.S. contributes more than 10% of global climate finance for countries in need. The cessation of this funding may hinder the achievement of the $1.3 trillion climate finance target required by developing countries by 2035, necessitating a greater focus on private finance, international taxes, and multilateral development bank finance.

APA

Dasgupta, A. (2025). World Resources Institute Addresses Recent Trump Administration Actions. World Resources Institute. https://www.wri.org/news/statement-world-resources-institute-addresses-recent-trump-administration-actions

Chicago

Dasgupta, Ani. World Resources Institute Addresses Recent Trump Administration Actions. World Resources Institute, 2025. https://www.wri.org/news/statement-world-resources-institute-addresses-recent-trump-administration-actions.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{dasgupta2025world, author = {Dasgupta, Ani}, title = {{World Resources Institute Addresses Recent Trump Administration Actions}}, publisher = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2025}, month = feb, url = {https://www.wri.org/news/statement-world-resources-institute-addresses-recent-trump-administration-actions}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }