"Electrify, Baby, Electrify": In 2025, governments must choose a safer world
Despite Donald Trump's anti-climate stance and a weak COP 29 climate finance deal, 2025 is the year for governments to prioritize the clean energy transition.
This article was published in full on Devex on January 20, 2025, and an excerpt republished with permission.
Donald Trump will be sworn in Monday as president of the United States for a second time.
Trump campaigned on the slogan "drill, baby, drill" and this month made an impromptu pledge to ban new wind turbines.
While deadly fires raged in the nation’s second-largest city, fueled by global warming, Trump misleadingly blamed California’s water infrastructure policies.
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