{"id":69259,"date":"2025-02-01T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/01\/leaders-in-the-pacific-raise-alarm-over-direct-impact-of-trumps-climate-retreat-and-aid-freeze"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:00:27","slug":"leaders-in-the-pacific-raise-alarm-over-direct-impact-of-trumps-climate-retreat-and-aid-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69259","title":{"rendered":"Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over \u2018direct impact\u2019 of Trump\u2019s climate retreat and aid freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa\u2019s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is \u2018very disappointing\u2019 and puts the survival of Pacific countries at greater risk<\/p>\n<p>Leaders and environmental advocates in the Pacific have expressed alarm over Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and freeze foreign aid, warning the moves will accelerate the existential threats they face as nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris agreement is the world\u2019s main effort to address the impacts of the climate crisis. Trump has called it \u201cunfair\u201d and a \u201crip off\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/01\/leaders-in-the-pacific-raise-alarm-over-direct-impact-of-trumps-climate-retreat-and-aid-freeze\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa\u2019s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is \u2018very disappointing\u2019 and puts the survival of Pacific countries at greater riskLeaders and environmental advocates in the Pacific have expressed alarm over Donald Trump\u2019s decisio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,436,874,3085,267,936,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-papua-new-guinea","category-samoa","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259\/revisions\/69260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}