Geneva – Climate change follows “non-negotiable” laws of physics that “must be seen with a perspective of decades or centuries, rather than in a four-year mandate,” the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) following the new withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreements announced by the Donald Trump administration.
“Climate change is the great challenge of our times,” agency spokesperson Clare Nullis said at a press conference, recalling that the United States is also one of the great victims of meteorological disasters, aggravated in many cases by global warming. global.
“The country’s own figures estimate that the United States has suffered more than 400 climate disasters since 1980 with losses of more than 2.9 trillion dollars,” Nullis highlighted, recalling that in 2024 alone 27 have been recorded. of these catastrophes with a cost of 1,000 million dollars.
“We currently see in Los Angeles the effects that climate disasters have on our economies and societies,” said the spokesperson, who pointed out that globally in the last half century more than 12,000 climate catastrophes have caused about 4 trillion dollars in losses.
On Monday, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterresexpressed his hope that the United States will continue to show “leadership vision” and continue working on low-emissions growth, despite Trump’s promise to accelerate oil exploration and other non-renewable energy sources.
The United States already abandoned the Paris Climate Agreement in the Republican’s first term (2017-2021), although the effective exit only occurred in 2020, three years after its announcement. A year after the withdrawal became effective, Joe Biden reincorporated the country into that agreement.