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Nigel Farage plans to team up with Donald Trump for unexpected project


Mr Farage said the UK should become the face of a worldwide UN initiative to capture CO2 and he had “every confidence” that he would win Mr Trump’s support for it. The Brexit Party leader is set to announce a large-scale tree planting programme across the UK today. He is thought to be keen to work with Mr Trump on pushing environmental policies.

The news might come as a surprise given the US President has made many comments over the years claiming climate change is a myth.

Mr Farage told the Guardian: “The UK should spearhead a global initiative at the United Nations to plant billions of trees around the world and I have every confidence Britain would get support from the American administration on this.

“If it’s true that an area the size of Devon and Cornwall is removed from the Amazon every year, then we have a lot of work to do – and quickly.”

He also pledged to ensure Britain recycles all of its own waste and to make it illegal for it to be exported overseas to be burned, buried or dumped at sea.

In the past, Mr Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and accused climate scientists of having a “political agenda”.  
 
He once claimed the phenomenon was a Chinese hoax intended to hurt American exports.

He has also repeatedly confused seasonal weather with climate change, once tweeting that a snow-hit US could do with “a little of that good old fashioned Global Warning right now”.

Last year, he revealed he thought although the climate might be changing, the climate “could very well go back”.

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“This is because politics has become so cynical in recent years. Parties make promises in their manifestos which they think voters want to hear, yet have no intention of keeping them.

“For these reasons, The Brexit Party is instead launching a contract with the British people. We trust that this word speaks for itself.”



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