{"id":6211,"date":"2022-08-01T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/us-climate-deal-gets-cool-response-from-allies"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:33:40","slug":"us-climate-deal-gets-cool-response-from-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/us-climate-deal-gets-cool-response-from-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"US climate deal gets cool response from allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot2022-08-01105016_1659340239.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>U.S. President Joe Biden says his $370 billion climate package is \u201chistoric,\u201d but he&#8217;ll have to do more at home and abroad for the world to see the U.S. as anything but a colossal procrastinator.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;Those of us in climate vulnerable countries are still waiting,\u201d said Mohamed Adow, director of the Power Shift Africa think tank. \u201cUntil they honor their commitments on the international stage they cannot be seen as a true global leader on climate.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>The deal also made some concessions to Manchin \u2014 who has\u00a0made millions\u00a0in the coal industry \u2014 by guaranteeing new coal, oil and gas extraction.<br\/><br\/>The U.S. is \u201cstill playing catch up after years of being the world&#8217;s worst polluter and it continues to fund new fossil fuel exploration when we can&#8217;t afford to burn all the fossil fuel reserves we currently have,&#8221; said Adow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden says his $370 billion climate package is \u201chistoric,\u201d but he&#8217;ll have to do more at home and abroad for the world to see the U.S. as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}