Rubio Shutters Climate Office, Alarming Global Climate Advocates Rubio Shutters Climate Office, Alarming Global Climate Advocates

Rubio Shutters Climate Office, Alarming Global Climate Advocates Rubio Shutters Climate Office, Alarming Global Climate Advocates

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is dismantling a key climate diplomacy office, a move that is throwing U.S. international environmental efforts into disarray just months ahead of critical global talks. On Thursday, staff at the Office of Global Change were verbally informed that the unit, which has overseen U.S. engagement in international climate negotiations, would be dissolved, according to three individuals who requested anonymity out of fear…

GISS Gets the Boot: A Seinfeldian Saga

In a move that’s as poetic as it is ironic, the Trump administration has yanked the lease out from under NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), sending the climate science hub packing from its quirky perch above Tom’s Restaurant in Manhattan.

Marco Rubio Silences Every Last Little Criticism of Israel at State Department

When Secretary Marco Rubio proposed a sweeping reorganization of the State Department on Tuesday, he singled out a human rights office that he said had become a platform for “left-wing activists” to pursue “arms embargoes” on Israel: the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Rubio is proposing to rename the bureau, downsize it, and shunt it under another section of the State Department. The bureau’s duties include writing an annual human…

The US office in charge of climate diplomacy will disappear, confirmed on Friday the government of Donald Trump, three months after the resounding announcement of the new withdrawal of the United States, the world's first historical polluter, from the Paris agreement on climate. ...

The U.S. government has abolished the agency that the U.S. has previously represented in the UN climate negotiations, thus calling for participation in the next climate summit.

This removal raises fears that the United States will be completely absent from COP30 in Brazil in November. The decision comes three months after the resounding announcement of the new US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.