It may be the last U.S. contribution the fund sees for some time.
Just three days before Trump took office, the State Department announced a $500-million grant to the group financing implementation of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Trump has said that he intends to end U.S. support of global action on climate change and, possibly, to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
In 2014, the Obama Administration pledged to contribute $3 billion to the U.N.-affiliated Green Climate Fund, which promotes renewable energy and climate adaptation in the Global South. This payment brought the total U.S. contribution to $1 billion.
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