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U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say
The Trump administration sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of a United Nations report about the dire state of the planet because it called for phasing out fossil fuels, switching to clean energy and reducing plastics, according to two participants.The section targeted was a summary of the Global Environment Outlook 7, a 1,210-page report that translates scientific evidence collected and reviewed by 300 experts into plain language that can be used by governments around the world. It was issued on Monday at the U.N. Environment Assembly in Nairobi.
It was the first time that countries failed to issue a “summary for policymakers” since the United Nations Environment Program began publishing outlook reports in 1997.
It's not enough that he doing damage to our democracy, he's also doing irreparable harm to the environment. History will be brutal in its assessment of the worst prez in two centuries.
