Huffman, Pelosi, SEEC Democrats Sound Alarm on U.S. Absence at COP30

November 13, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Jared Huffman (CA-51) joined Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Members of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC)—Reps. Doris Matsui, Sean Casten, Yassamin Ansari, Kathy Castor, Maxine Dexter, Jared Huffman, and April McClain Delaney—at a press conference blasting President Donald Trump for the federal government’s absence at the key international climate negotiations in Belem, Brazil (COP30) this week.

Pelosi and her colleagues were part of a federal delegation set to go to Belem but were waylaid by President Trump’s government shutdown. Even as Trump fails to show leadership at home and abroad, SEEC and millions of Americans remain clear-eyed and committed in the midst of the global fight to build a more affordable, clean, and healthy future for America and the world.

The full press conference is available to be viewed HERE.

“Folks behind me would have been a fantastic congressional delegation to the Belem climate conference this week. That’s where we were supposed to be. The world still needs and wants American leadership. And unfortunately, the consequence of Donald Trump pulling the United States delegation out at the federal level is just that China is going to get a few more of these amazing opportunities that the United States ought to be leading on,” said Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Congressman Jared Huffman. “We’re not going away, just like the climate crisis is not going away. Climate action leadership at the national level is not going to stop. Even in Brazil, we’re super proud of what’s happening at the sub-national level, with states and local governments, tribes, so many leaders in the United States are carrying the message to Brazil this week that America is still in and we will do our part to do that as well, even though Donald Trump and our Republican colleagues are going to try to stop us at every turn.” 

“When I became Speaker for the first time, my flagship issue was the climate crisis because I saw it as a health, economic, security, and moral issue,” said Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. “It is so sad that the United States of America, one of the biggest economies of the world and one of the leading emitters of the world, is not there in Brazil to protect God’s creation. I do believe this planet is God’s creation and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it for the benefit of our country and for our children.”

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