Feb 20, 2025 -
Energy & Climate
Scoop: U.S. to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting
Maria Curi
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Andrew Freedman
State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Why it matters: A U.S. absence from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Hangzhou, China, would leave the country out of conversations for the group's next influential reports.
It would accompany President Trump's decision, for the second time, to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement.
The big picture: The IPCC is considered the most authoritative source of global climate science information.
Its next series of reports — its seventh since the group was founded in 1988 — is expected to be completed by 2029.
The IPCC, which involves hundreds of scientists from around the world and government representatives, is intended to inform policymakers of the latest scientific findings.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/20/us-delegation-pulled-climate-science-meeting
