The Donald Trump administration has unveiled plans for a “Board of Peace” reportedly offering permanent membership in exchange for billion-dollar payments.
Amid mixed global reactions to the development, climate justice organisation, 350.org, has frowned at the proposal, warning that it represents a dangerous attempt to monetise global governance and sideline existing international institutions.
350.org said the initiative threatens to undermine the United Nations and the principles of cooperation, legitimacy and equality between nations at a moment of escalating climate, economic and security crises.
Andreas Sieber, Head of Policy 350.org, said: “This initiative is like handing the fire brigade to the arsonists. An administration that fuels fossil expansion, withdraws from international agreements and threatens the use of force cannot credibly present itself as a guarantor of peace. You cannot burn down global cooperation and then sell tickets to rebuild it.
“This administration’s approach to global governance resembles a dangerous parody: international law treated as optional; fossil fuel expansion pursued at any cost, and authoritarian leaders courted while multilateral institutions are undermined. 350.org’s recent analysis shows 81% of global oil reserves now lie within the United States’ sphere of influence, exposing countries dependent on oil to acute geopolitical risks and price shocks amid escalating US threats and military interventions.”
Since the beginning of 2026, the US president has:
- Signed executive orders withdrawing the United States from 66 international organisations including the Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming.
- Launched a military intervention in Venezuela, home to some of the world’s largest oil reserves.
- Issued explicit threats toward Greenland, Cuba, Colombia and Mexico, signalling a widening effort to bring global oil and gas supplies under US control ( as recently released date from 350 and Zero Carbon Analytics demonstrates)
350.org warned that these moves reveal a clear pattern: the replacement of diplomacy with coercion, and cooperation with extraction-driven imperialism.
“Undermining the UN while auctioning off ‘peace’ to the highest bidder is not leadership, it is global governance by extortion,” 350.org added. “At a moment of overlapping crises, climate breakdown, war, inequality and displacement ,the world needs more cooperation, not billionaire-led breakaway clubs.”
350.org callied on governments to recommit to strengthening multilateral institutions, including the United Nations system, rather than legitimising parallel structures that concentrate power, exclude most of the world, and erode decades of hard-won international norms.