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UN Agency Self-Censoring on Climate Crisis After Warning From Trump Administration, Says Report

A State Department official reportedly warned they would cut funding to projects in conflict with the White House’s “political sensitivities.”

The United Nation’s migration agency is reportedly censoring itself on the climate crisis after a Trump administration official allegedly told the group that the programs it funds “must not be in conflict with current [U.S. government] political sensitivities.” The Guardian reports that a U.S.-based official from the International Organization for Migration [IOM] instructed colleagues around the world that the U.S. StateDdepartment’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration [PRM] told them which issues to avoid. That reportedly includes the climate crisis, the global compact for migration, and “anything that seems at odds with the administration’s take on U.S. domestic/foreign issues,” the IOM official wrote. The newspaper reported that internal communications show the agency is avoiding direct references to climate change in documents for U.S.-funded projects.