With just three days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, the State Department on Tuesday announced a half-billion-dollar contribution to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund, part of $3 billion the United States has promised to the fund under President Obama. [Billions of dollars in Green Climate Fund may be stymied by rising sea of red tape]Kirby said in a statement that the funds came from a 2016 appropriation for the agency’s Economic Support Fund. Much, but not all of this money is intended to be distributed through the Green Climate Fund, which has already raised $10 billion so far. Read more at Energy & Environment:These are the two environmental rules the Republican Congress is trying to kill firstDays before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $ 500 million to United Nations climate fundAmerica’s first ‘clean coal’ plant is now operational — and another one is on the wayFor more, you can sign up for our weekly newsletter here and follow us on Twitter here.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2017 21:06 UTC