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    Opinion: In 2025, governments must ‘electrify, baby, electrify’

    Despite Donald Trump's anti-climate stance and a weak COP29 climate finance deal, 2025 is the year for governments to prioritize the clean energy transition.

    By Megan Darby // 20 January 2025

    Donald Trump will be sworn in today as president of the United States, for a second time.

    Trump campaigned on the slogan “drill, baby, drill” and this month made an impromptu pledge to ban new wind turbines.

    While deadly fires raged in the nation’s second-largest city, fueled by global warming, Trump misleadingly blamed California’s water infrastructure policies.

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