End climate policies in foreign aid and support oil and gas
What the document says“USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support the responsible management of oil and gas reserves”
The chapter says this is the quickest way to end what it calls wrenching poverty and the need for open-ended foreign aid. It asks that all climate policies be rescinded from foreign aid programs and that the agency cease collaborating with and funding foundations, corporations, international institutions and NGOs that it says advocate climate fanaticism.
What the document actually says“USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support the responsible management of oil and gas reserves”
Stop fighting oil and gas in poor countries. Help them use it well instead.
Poor countries often have oil and gas. Aid rules have discouraged using them. The book says that keeps people poor. It wants those rules dropped.
Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8455
Section 3(e) of Executive Order 14162 revokes and rescinds the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan immediately and directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance within 10 days for the rescission of all frozen funds. Section 3(f) requires the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with the heads of the other departments and agencies that fund work abroad, to report within 30 days on their actions to revoke or rescind policies implemented to advance that plan. That is the rescission of climate policies from foreign aid programs the chapter asks for. The rest of the proposal is absent. The order does not direct support for the responsible management of oil and gas reserves in the developing world, and it says nothing about the agency's collaboration with or funding of the foundations, corporations, international institutions and nongovernmental organizations the chapter names.
The order pulls the plan for climate money abroad and tells the budget office to write rules within 10 days. The aid agency and others must report within 30 days on steps to undo that plan. That is the end of climate policy in aid the book asked for. But the order does not back oil and gas work in poor countries. It says nothing about the groups the book names.