Trump’s attack on UN shipping deal is a harbinger of what’s to come. Here’s how countries can still get climate action done. - CleanTechnica

The article discusses the recent collapse of a climate deal at the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO), largely due to intense opposition from the Trump administration. The US, led by President Trump and Secretary of State, exerted significant political pressure to block a shipping emissions agreement that had been agreed upon in principle six months earlier. Trump publicly denounced the deal as a “Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping” and threatened punitive measures against countries supporting it. This intimidation led to a one-year postponement of the deal, highlighting the difficulty of achieving ambitious global climate agreements under current US leadership. The article notes that while previous US presidents also undermined international climate efforts, the Trump administration’s approach is more aggressively aimed at dismantling clean energy and climate action altogether. The author critiques Europe’s response, arguing that some EU states were willing to sacrifice their own climate rules to appease Trump, a strategy that ultimately failed and weakened their negotiating position. The article also points out that the IMO deal itself was flawed,