Biden’s bonanza budget earmarks billions for green energy projects … in other countries

Thomas Catenacci, DCNF

President Joe Biden’s budget would boost international climate spending to more than $11 billion, quadrupling previous U.S. global green commitments.

The federal government would advance Biden’s so-called “historic climate finance pledge” under the plan, according to the White House budget published Monday. Overall, the budget calls for Congress to appropriate $44.9 billion to defeat the “climate crisis,” a $16.7 billion year-over-year increase.

“U.S. international climate assistance and financing would: accelerate the global energy transition to net-zero emissions by 2050; help developing countries build resilience to the growing impacts of climate change; and support the implementation of the President’s Plan to Conserve Global Forests: Critical Carbon Sinks,” the document stated.

An estimated $1.6 billion will be given to the international United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF) which the budget said finances “climate adaptation and mitigation projects in developing countries.” Another $3.2 billion would be loaned to the Clean Technology Fund to finance clean energy projects in developing countries.

Biden’s budget further vowed to decrease global “reliance on producers of nonrenewable resources.”

The president first announced his international climate funding ambitions in April before again increasing his goal during a speech at the United Nations in September, in which he raised the goal to about $11.4 billion.

While former President Barack Obama promised $3 billion to the GCF, a pledge he fell far short of, former President Donald Trump backed out of international climate finance agreements altogether, saying they would cost taxpayers a “vast fortune.”

The GCF was created by the UN in 2009 when wealthy nations promised to give $100 billion to developing countries for climate projects by 2020. However, the world has fallen far short of its commitments since then.

“Of course, the world’s top polluters have no affirmative obligations under the Green Fund, which we terminated,” Trump remarked in June 2017. “America is $20 trillion in debt. Cash-strapped cities cannot hire enough police officers or fix vital infrastructure.”

“Millions of our citizens are out of work,” he continued. “And yet, under the Paris Accord, billions of dollars that ought to be invested right here in America will be sent to the very countries that have taken our factories and our jobs away from us. So think of that.”

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5 thoughts on “Biden’s bonanza budget earmarks billions for green energy projects … in other countries

  1. All those BILLION$ should be REDIRECTED to HELP AMERICANS deal with the HIGH COSTS of ESCAPING CLIMATE! My SCORCHED EARTH Policy would include a Two Year WARNING to the WORLD that the USA would SOON become a TRULY AMERICA FIRST Nation in EVERYTHING we do!! US TAXPAYERS have been the World’s BABY DADDY for far too long. We give too much money to people who hate us – let them hate us for free!!

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    1. It’s not the WORST, but it could be better! At least comments are being posted rather than “waiting for review”! I guess they are!

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