Trump Stranglehold Adds to Growing Doubts at Climate Talks
Nearly 200 nations will soon gather for the annual COP29 summit, where efforts to increase funding for poor countries and slash emissions will run against the reality of a hostile American president.
President Donald Trump walks away after announcing the US withdraw from the Paris climate pact in a speech from the Rose Garden of the White House in 2017.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe election of Donald Trump — and his vow to once again undertake a US retreat from international climate diplomacy — poses a decisive threat to the fight against global warming, as the window for meaningful action closes.
Trump’s win comes just days before representatives from nearly 200 nations gather in Azerbaijan for COP29, the annual United Nations climate summit. That two-week meeting will start Monday in the shadow of a Republican president-elect who has promised to lead another withdrawal from the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.