Climatewire | On the day after the President Donald Trump, he won the White House.
A The American message is in coalition Last November Trump Revuke was a campaign to undo the historical efforts of the Biden administration to reduce the trust of the gas, gas and coal.
When the second Administration of Trump began in the following elections, they encountered agencies such as the Department of Justice and Management and Budget Office.
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One of the most important coalition technologies, the retail or industrial firms did not sign the open letter of the group in December Commitment to the Paris ConventionThe international climate commitment was created to defend the coalition. Nonsigners had the most valuable company in Walmart, Siemens and Apple, the main policy of Lisa Jackson was a chair at the time. He took it as a chair in January, in the same month of Apple CEO Tim Cook TRUMPEN INAGURATION Attended.
The retirement of public climate public agents does not mean that companies have ignored environmental goals, experts said, but higher directors are afraid to talk about these goals to talk about these goals. Trump has moved again to leave the Paris agreement, eviscerated Dozens of climate programThousands of federal staff shot and rooted the initiatives of diversity.
“People are quite released,” Kaya Axelsson said in American researchers, at the UK at Oxford University, where he works with directors and regulators about climate objectives. “It can be loud and proud to be dangerous for companies right now.”
Not all America has answered questions about unanswered corporate members.
“The benefits of clean energy investments are indefinitely for American communities and businesses, and it determines that America should be ensured,” Elizabeth Lien, Director of the Coalition Program, in an email. “We are ensuring that US keeps in clean energy in the future.”
Apple stated that Jackson and the company is active in the coalition.
“Lisa is proud to follow the leadership of America in the circle of leaders,” Apple spokesperson Sean Redding said in a single line statement.
Walmart and Siemens did not respond to comment requests.
Who is still?
We are originally, in June 2017, when Trump launched, the US announced that the International Agreement wants to limit almost 200 countries involved in almost 200 national countries.
Coalitions were launched by collecting more than 1,000 leaders of US States, cities, businesses and universities Declared global community We still have a “Paris Agreement”, “it would continue to reduce the emissions of heating gas emissions.
He created An online platform Members acquired actions that contributed to the goals of Paris in the first term of Trump. Facebook and Microsoft were among the large businesses offered shipments. He also organized events in global climate lectures and collaborated with another initiative called American Commitment to show that climate advances without federal leadership.
When Joe Biden took the former president in 2021 and when the Pact in Paris came in again, “America is America,” renovated the fight against global government warming. He continued to defend large ambitions and climate-oriented legislation.
Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos Elon Muskínik 60. Donald Trump John 47. January 20, 2025, US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Capitol Rotunda
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Members go to America to all in full form and commitment to defend the goals of the Paris agreement. Coalition has regular websites, strategy sessions and training and organizes events on international climate meetings. It also has statements that support climate action that members of the partners who have the opportunity to sign in.
He claims to enter now More than 5,000 membersare more than half of the business community. Most members have been with coalition since the initial statement was signed in 2017. More than 90% of them are small and medium-sized businesses, including more than 200 large businesses.
Corporate giants like Apple and Walmart, however, have an external impact on the coalition – and the planet – lobby muscles, due to market power and huge emissions.
America is “Movement of Great Tent,” Lien said, is also the CEO of Federal Climate Policy World Wildlife FundEnvironmental Group. The coalition is the WWF and Bloomberg Philanthropy initiative.
Siemens said, constellation energy and dozens of important industrial companies made by Capitol Capitol has visited Capitol in the annual lobbying of America last week. This time, legislators asked them to maintain federal tax credits, according to the decline in the inflation of the Biden.
But Microsoft and several other huge corporators skipped the Lobby event, then By participating in 2024.
Coalition made to investors
Apple and other great technological technology, international markets and formunities that promote Washington policies, pre-highlighted the work with America is for investors, but they have now retreated.
“When it comes to taking measures to environmental challenges, the collective actions are issues. Therefore, we are also making public commitments to point the type of change we are working with our partners,” Apple said 2022 Report in its green initiatives. “This is our role as a signatory signator.”
Apple again mentioned the coalition 2023 Environmental Report And last year, Jackson noticed that Barack Obama was the first EPA administrator Designated as co-chair He guided the group’s strategy. He is currently a member of the 16-person leadership committee, the role of serving “as an ambassador for this coalition”. America is on the website.
Meta, Main Company on Facebook, investors said last year Coalition “has given a general structure for the extensive and diverse and multiple collective organizations that commit to climate”. In 2023, Social media company announced Relationships that had dedicated director for external commitment, relationships with federal coalitions with policies such as America. “
In recent years, sustainability reports From Microsoft and Amazon The involvement of Tech companies has also highlighted the coalition.
Microsoft’s representatives of Google and Amazon spoke in America in the Pavilion Baku, Azerbaijan Climate Climate Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan, soon.
Now the Presidents are silenced by apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon and his Republican ally at Congress Prepare intestinal grants For electricity transmission, the availability scale due to battery storage and other climate expenditure programs were necessary for carbon dioxide spills. Instead of talking about strength, as they did in a large part of the first trumpet and the Bid era, four companies or their General Directors have recognized at least $ 1 million to the President’s Opening Fund.
Amazon did not answer a list of questions about the implication with the coalition. Meta and Microsoft refused to comment.
On the February blog, Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft’s main sustainability authority, company confirmed his commitment “To expand clean energy solutions, adding Microsoft” to collaborate with industrial classmates, partners and politicians in search of our shared goals. “
‘You go in front of the blow’
When Trump changing his corporate strategy, Corprim is the risk of its potential customers, according to David Victor, University of University of California, San Diego, global policy school and strategy.
“Starting from climate commitments, and many companies walking from all other things walked out of all other things before.” Everything happened so quickly that they didn’t start to actually see the strength of that blow. “
One It is a member of America Hot starts feeling: Tesla. Elon Musk, Electric Maker’s Miliary CEO, Spend At least $ 288 million To help you select Trump and other Republicans in the 2024 elections. Musk and its government efficiency is the so-called President Blitzkrieg in federal climate programs.
As a result, Tesla has become vehicles and outlets Objectives for protesters Musk has somehow angry, has taken a chain to federal staff and Put public services at risk. Protests – significantly reducing sales in Europe, California and other key markets, about 40% of the Telsa rating since the beginning of 2025.
On Monday Trump Musk came to defense, and its fortune is based primarily on its thesla farms, and promised to buy an EVS of the company.
Tesla has not answered a request for comment.
If Trump did not return the White House, many giant technologies were already required by the energy and computer capacity that was required to run new artificial intelligence programs, depending on the Vict of UC San Diego. These emissions reduction goals will be harder, focus on tax credits that Muscles and Republicans want to limit climate change.
“What they have to do is articulate the vision of economically sensible climate action,” Victor said the leaders of Silicon Valley. “This environment of fear and chaos is very difficult to articulate this approach because it will change from one week to another.”
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