Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is donating $5.5 million to the United Nations to help meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord, Bloomberg’s charity Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday.
Bloomberg, a former three-term mayor of New York City, began donating to the U.N. climate change department after President Donald Trump began pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement in June 2017.
Bloomberg, the U.N. secretary-general’s special envoy for climate action, has now taken the place of the U.S. federal government in donating to the U.N.’s climate agenda for two years.
“The United States made a promise to meet the goals outlined in the Paris Agreement – and if the federal government won’t hold up our end of the deal, then the American people must,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
“As mayors, governors, business leaders, and private citizens across the country work to ensure that we meet our climate targets, our foundation will again cover the difference in federal funding to the United Nations,” Bloomberg continued. “Together, we’re sending a loud, clear message to the rest of the world: regardless of what’s happening in Washington, we’re in this fight with you.”
Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord roughly a year after former President Barack Obama signed onto the international agreement. Trump said that, despite the agreement’s stated goals, its practical effects put the U.S. at a disadvantage relative to other countries.
“This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States,” Trump said in a June 1, 2017, speech announcing his decision on the Paris agreement. “The agreement doesn’t eliminate coal jobs; it just transfers those jobs out of America.”
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Would that he give every single cent of his wealth to the Paris accord and go away penniless to leave us alone. I’m not afraid that the AGWCC will use the funds, but they won’t achieve any result so might as well waste it all.
The Bloomberg cash will be used for virtue signalers to fly business class
to their conferences .
“Tackle Climate Change ” really ? Want dumb bunnies actually think
a bunch of loser politicians are going to set the earth’s thermostat ?
Isn’t it time these epic bull shitters were called out on trying to con the public .
The Democrat’s will get absolutely destroyed in 2020 by shoving their preachy we know best eco-anarchist crap onto the public .
What scientists claim that by adjusting human behavior (use of fossil fuel )
politicians are going to set the earths temperature to some number they have chosen / The thing is so absurd as to be laughable if it wasn’t costing thousands of lives every year and the waste of $billions of dollars on a con job .
These fraudsters need to be criminally charged .
“The United States made a promise to meet the goals outlined in the Paris Agreement – and if the federal government won’t hold up our end of the deal, then the American people must,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
No Bloomie, the United States did not make such a promise. It was done by Obama who never submitted the “agreement” to the US Senate to be confirmed. Obama is not now and was not then the United States.
Exactly right. The same for his Iran deal, also known as “Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action” or JCPOA. Both are unratified treaties and invalid.
A fool and his money are soon parted; Michael you are certainly a fool.
You have to assume Bloomberg isn’t stupid . So what is the game ? Club of Rome wealth transfer or just being bullied by eco -anarchists ?
They did elect AOC so maybe it’s something in the NYC water . Lead poisoning
perhaps .