TRUMP EFFECT: New York Times columnist: ‘Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics’ – Trump’s election ‘looks like a black dawn to climate activists’ – ‘Governments have retreated’ from climate ‘promises’ as world leaders skip COP29
By Marc Morano
November 13, 2024
5:21 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/climate-change-politics-trump-cop29.htmlBy David Wallace-Wells
When the COP29 climate conference comes to an end next week, it will have concluded without an appearance by President Biden. This is not because Donald Trump just won the election, supplanting the outgoing American head of state on the world stage. The president-elect isn’t attending, either. Neither is Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he defeated on Nov. 5.
It’s not just the Americans who are AWOL. Hardly any of the world’s most powerful leaders will be making an appearance in Baku, Azerbaijan — yet another year that the annual Conference of the Parties, convened to stem the problem of warming, has been hosted by a petrostate. President Xi Jinping of China won’t be there, and neither will Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. President Emmanuel Macron of France, the bedraggled face of Western liberalism, is skipping the conference, too. Also missing will be Lula da Silva, who is the leader not just of Brazil but also of the Group of 20. As recently as the Glasgow summit in 2021, the annual climate confab was a who’s who of global power politics. These days, it’s more about who’s missing.
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