Trump shifts US funds from shutting down foreign fossil fuels to expanding them

The US administration has pulled clean energy and just transition funding in South Africa and is pressuring EXIM and the World Bank to back fossil fuels
Trump shifts US foreign energy funding to fossil fuel expansion
A Greenpeace activist in Johannesburg protests against coal power plant's air pollution on 20/08/2019 (Photo: Shayne Robinson/Greenpeace)

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