Trump pressure forces climate silence at global finance talks

Developing countries already paying billions annually for climate disaster repairs face reduced access to adaptation funding, increasing vulnerability to droughts, floods, and storms.

At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington this week, an invisible constraint has settled over the proceedings: the Trump administration has made clear that climate change is not to be named, not to be funded, not to be planned for — at least not openly. Developing nations, who arrived seeking resources to survive floods, droughts, and energy instability they did little to cause, find themselves caught between the demands of the world's largest shareholder and the accelerating costs of a warming planet. What is unfolding is not merely a policy dispute but a

Trump pressure forces climate silence at global finance talks

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