The Trump administration was not invited to the gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia. A White House spokeswoman called the green transition “destructive.”
Agreement to conduct the necessary phase out is probably not possible if a country run for the benefit of the oil industry is involved in any meaningful way
Yeah, it’d be unhelpful at best to have an American representative involved. But more likely they’d be actively trying to sabotage the whole thing, so this was pretty obviously the right move.