What Donald Trump has said on the campaign trail may not translate into policy that hampers sustainable development. But there is a need for green groups to ‘draw a line in the sand’ with the president-elect, the head of WWF has said.
A Donald Trump presidency in the United States may not spell the kind of doom and gloom for the sustainability movement that many are expecting, but there is a need to “draw a line in the sand” with the president-elect over his environmental policies, the head of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has said.
Talking to Eco-Business after a tiger conservation event in Singapore recently, Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International was careful to avoid using any alarmist language when asked what he expects of the president-elect’s policymaking, despite Trump’s appointment of a well-known climate change denier as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
“It’s difficult to judge what the Donald Trump campaigner means versus what the Donald Trump president will do. The jury is still out,” Lambertini said, who is based in Switzerland.
Source: Eco-Business, 12 December: ‘Keep an open mind’ on Trump environmental politicking, says WWF chief