The 11 staff members at the Office of International Climate and Technology will soon be out of jobs. The Energy Department announced that would it be disbanding the office, which was established in 2010 to help foreign countries lower their greenhouse gas emissions.
“Closing the Office of International Climate and Technology could make cooperation on clean energy with other countries much harder, said Graham Pugh, who headed the office from 2011 to 2014,” said The New York Times.
Both the State Department and the Energy Department will continue to run separate programs that reach out to China, Brazil, and other countries, but it’s unclear whether those programs will have the same level of expertise on clean energy.