Trump calls climate change a hoax. COP30 fights back

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This week on #WooSays, Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Woo Wing Thye and Melisa Idris turn their attention to COP30 as they unpack what’s at stake this year.

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00:00This week on Wu Says, we turn our focus to COP30.

00:04Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Wu Wingtai and Melissa Idris unpacked what's at stake this year with Trump's presidency entering its first year.

00:12Here's a segment from the conversation.

00:16He not only has called it a hoax, he has backed it up with actions.

00:21Like, for example, he has stopped the funding of the development of alternative energy sources.

00:33And he, like, for example, there was a plan to make green EVs in America.

00:40He's taken away the tax credit for those companies that were going to do it.

00:47And the other thing he has done is he has doubled down on the sale of American gas to the rest of the world.

00:58If you look at the trade treaty that Malaysia signed when he was here, we agreed to buy more U.S. gas.

01:10We signed to import more U.S. gas.

01:14And if you look at many of the trade treaties, that's what he has made it a condition of.

01:22And he has also looking actively into granting permits to drill in different parts of the United States.

01:36That is the other action.

01:38And, of course, USAID had programs to help the poorer countries to decarbonize their economies.

01:54And all those plants have been removed from USAID.

02:00In fact, USAID itself has ceased to exist.

02:03Catch the full conversation on Awani International and across our social media platforms.

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