Global green energy trade will continue without Trump, bypass the US: Analysts

Trump's threat of tariffs has led to a reduction in the U.S. share of global trade, offset by increases in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

The EU can redirect its own funds from the U.S. to domestic investments, and double down on green energy incentives to widen its advantage in renewables and greentech.

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 28, 2025.

By Mitchell Beer

By pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, shredding his predecessor’s energy transition and climate initiatives, and embracing an extreme “Drill, Baby, Drill” agenda for oil and gas, Donald Trump is making his country an outlier in a global community that still plans to confront the climate emergency while reaping the benefits of a clean energy economy, analysts say.

“Well, that was unpleasant,” wrote Canadian Climate Institute President Rick Smith, as he surveyed the wreckage of the half-dozen energy-related executive orders that Trump issued on his first day back in the White House. But Smith cited four big-picture trends—public concern about extreme weather, intensifying action by state and local governments, the “inescapable” economics of the net-zero transition, and the reality that “the new low-emission machines are simply better”—that will be beyond anything Trump can control.

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