Notes from the speech – ‘Drill Baby Drill’ is the message from President Trump’s opening address after inauguration.
Big Oil is back, and the Inflation Reduction Act is dead, and the EV mandate is killed. This is the tectonic shift in climate policy from today. A lot of thinking needed to pivot the climate geographies in the Trump Era.
For the sustainability folks, DEI is dead. EVs also get a jolt as ICEV manufacturing makes a comeback in the United States for jobs. Migration is big on the agenda, as Mexico and Panama were at the receiving end of some harsh words.
The Gulf states have the most to cheer, and petroleum jobs will be back on the market again. Decarbonisation is headed for a screeching halt.
US as a superpower is clear with ambitions for Mars. The 27 minutes were clean, a statement of strength and signals a return to great power politics. These are times of a great pivot especially for sustainability professionals who only thought in frameworks. The real ESG, now officially dead where the G was geopolitics. Raw, brute power has no parallels.
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