Donald Trump’s Climate Wars

Relevance. The paper analyses the initiatives of the new US administration on the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the revision of national climate policy. Method. The author examines the main decisions of the Trump administration and unveils the impact of these decisions on the positions of the leading players in global climate policy. Results . Fundamentally, new issues have been identified, such as the dismantling of structures and initiatives that ensured the climate policy of the previous administration, the systemic impact on all components of the ESG agenda, and the termination of all US foreign policy initiatives and climate programs. Scientific novelty . A forecast is given of the possible directions of the greatest activity of the United States, tied to the climate agenda and recommendations have been developed on Russia’s position in the field of climate diplomacy in the context of recent changes in US climate policy.