Navin Singh Khadka
Environmental correspondent, BBC World Service
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Trump said the United States oil and gas will be sold worldwide
The United Nations climate summit in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 ended with a call to “make fossil fuels”. It has been applauded as a historical stage of global climate action.
Barely a year later, however, there are fears that global engagement does not lose momentum, because the growth of the clean energy transition slows down while the burning of fossil fuels continues to increase.
And now there is “the national energy emergency” of American president Donald Trump, kissing fossil fuels and abandoning clean energy policies – which have also started to influence certain countries and energy societies.
In response to the slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill” by Trump aimed at accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels, and the United States by notifying the UN of withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, Indonesia, For example, suggested that she could follow the plunge.
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The United States is already the largest producer of oil and gas
“If we don’t do it, why should we?”
“If the United States does not want to comply with the international agreement, why should a country like Indonesia comply with it?” Asked Hashim Djojohadikusumo, a special envoy for climate change and energy from Indonesia, as reported by the news agency managed by the Antara government.
Indonesia has stayed in the list of the 10 best carbon -emitting countries for years.
“Indonesia produces three tonnes of carbon (per person per year) while the United States produces 13 tonnes,” he asked the ESG Sustainable 2025 forum in Jakarta on January 31.
“However, we are told to close our power stations … So where is the meaning of justice here?”
Nithi Nesadurai, director of the Action Action Action Network Asia in the Southeast, said that signals from her region were concern.
She said that the “richest country and the largest oil producer in the world” increasing its production gives other states “an easy excuse to increase their own – which they already do”.
In South Africa, the largest economy in Africa and a major carbon issuer, a transitional project abroad of $ 8.5 billion in the coal sector was already moving at a rate of snail, and Now there are fears so that it is more derailed.
Wikus Kruger, director of the Power Futures Lab at the University of Cape Town, said that there was a “possibility” that the downgrading of old coal -based central central “would be” more delayed “.
However, he said that even if there was a “return” from the transition to renewable energies, there was still growth in the clean energy sector which was to continue.
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The main developing countries emitting carbon such as Indonesia say they should not reduce emissions while the best transmitters as we continue to produce and burn more fossil fuels
Argentina withdrew its negotiators from the COP29 climate meeting in Baku last November, a few days after Trump won the American presidency. He has since followed the example of Trump by reporting that he will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement – which underpins global efforts to combat climate change.
“We are now expecting our oil and gas production to increase,” said Enrique Viale, president of the Argentine Association of Environmental Avocats, at the BBC.
“President Milei suggested that he intended to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and said that environmentalism was part of the Woke Agenda.”
Meanwhile, the Equinor energy giant has just announced that it has half the investments in renewable energies in the next two years while increasing oil and gas production, and another major oil of oil , BP, should soon make a similar announcement.
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Although global investment in clean energy has exceeded 2 TN for the first time, its growth has slowed down in recent years
“ American energy all over the world ”
Trump has not only said “Forest, Baby, Forest” but also: “We will export American energy all over the world”.
Potential foreign buyers are already aligning.
India and the United States have agreed to considerably increase the supply of American oil and gas to the Indian market.
At the end of the American visit to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 14, the two countries published a joint declaration which “reaffirmed” the United States would be “a leading supplier of crude oil and oil and natural gas products liquefied in India “.
A few days after the inauguration of Trump, South Korea, the third largest world importer in liquefied natural gas, hinted at its intention to buy more oil and American gas aimed at reducing a trade surplus with the states- United and improving energy security, international media reported to Seoul.
The leaders of the largest electricity generator in Japan, Jera, told Reuters that they also wanted to increase the purchases of liquefied natural gas in the United States to diversify the supply, as it currently imports half of the region Asia-Pacific.
“There is certainly a threat that if the United States seeks to flood cheap fossil fuels, or to intimidate countries to buy more of its fossil fuels, or both, the global energy transition could To be slowed down, “said Lorne Stockman, research director with Oil Change International, a research and advocacy organization for the transition to clean energy.
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Scientists have said that there cannot be any new extraction of fossil fuels if the world must limit warming to 1.5 ° C compared to the pre -industrial period
Scientists have said that there cannot be any new extraction of fossil fuels and that there must be a rapid reduction in carbon emissions (around 45% by 2030 of the 2019 level) if the world must limit the warming at 1.5 celsius compared to the pre -industrial period.
“The economy of energy supply is a key engine of decarbonization,” said David Brown, director of the practice of energy transition at Wood Mackenzie, a reflection group on energy.
“The basis of American energy resources supports the role of the production of natural gas and liquids. On the other hand, the savings depending on imports such as China, India and those of Southeast Asia have a spectacular economic incentive to decarbonize energy sources. “
The global investment in the energy transition exceeded 2 TN for the first time last year, but studies have also shown that the growth of the proper energy transition has clearly slowed down in recent years, while many large banks continue to Finance fossil fuels.
