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Donald Trump returns to the White House in January with the intention of destroying the foundations of current US environmental policy, prefer fossil fuels and reject any type of international leadership on climate change.

His victory in Tuesday’s US elections comes just days before COP29, the UN meeting to advance UN goals, begins on November 11 in Azerbaijan. global fight against the climate crisis.

And the second presidency of a Republican politician is one of the worst news that many COP29 delegates wanted to hear: the rise to power negative climate change.

In 2020, during his first term (2017-2021), Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement dismissing science and calling the climate crisis a “fraud.” Four years later, not only has their opinion remained unchanged, but their denial has intensified.

Trump’s extreme climate denial

In August of this year, during an interview businessman Elon Musk on social networksTrump has expressed outright opposition to combating climate change.

“What I don’t understand is that people talk about global warming or climate change, but they never talk about ‘nuclear warming,'” he explained, referring to the arsenal of nuclear weapons that several countries possess.

“For me, the big problem is not climate change. It’s not. Everything has problems, but these are degrees. For me, the big problem is nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is so powerful,” he added between Musk’s words of encouragement.

Project 2025, written by the conservative Heritage Foundation and seen by many analysts as the roadmap for Trump’s second presidency, devotes a chapter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one of Washington’s main tools in combating the climate crisis.

Project 2025 accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of being “a fertile ground for the expansion of federal government influence and control throughout the economy” infiltrated by activists who ignore the “will of Congress” so it proposes radical restructuring. “get back to basics,” which will be executed on Trump’s first day in the White House by executive order.

True to its role as an explosive material capable of destroying the regulatory architecture of the United States, the text also calls for the disappearance of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA in English), which, among other missions, studies climate and monitors the oceans.

Ecological guerrilla warfare

While Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025 during the campaign, there is little doubt that the Republican will roll back, to the extent possible, legal and regulatory frameworks that curb the most polluting industries and favor a green economy.

At a rally in October, the then-candidate assured that as soon as he returns to power on January 20, they will begin to “drill, honey, drill,” referring to the expansion of the oil sector.

The Republican also wants to repeal incumbent President Joe Biden’s Inflation Relief Act, which allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to decarbonize the country’s economy.

But intentions are one thing, and facts are another. The American environmental movement already has a strategy to try to stop Trump. Essentially legal guerrilla warfare.