Climate Protectors on Trump's Victory: A Black Day for the Planet - E-Mobility Could Be Slowed Down

With grim predictions, climate activists respond to Donald Trump's election victory. "Today is a dark day for our planet," said the managing director of Greenpeace Germany, Martin Kaiser, to the German Press Agency in Berlin. There is little hope that Trump, as US President, would be willing to solve the planetary crises of global warming and nature destruction. "The opposite is the case," he said.

"With his campaign slogan 'drill, baby, drill,' he makes clear what he intends: to further heat up the atmosphere with more oil and gas drilling, thereby risking the survival of millions of people." 

Furthermore, Kaiser expressed the fear that Trump's "aggressive rhetoric" will dominate and, in parts, destroy the climate discourse beyond the USA. Already after his first election victory in 2016, Trump had ordered the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to curb global warming.

World Climate Conference overshadowed by Trump victory

Kaiser said that the World Climate Conference COP29 starting on Monday in Azerbaijan would be massively overshadowed by Trump's election. "Greenpeace now expects the EU - especially Germany - to forge strong alliances to consistently tackle the common and colossal task of stabilizing the climate crisis and the nature crisis with the aim of common security."