Trump looms over Climate Week as UN returns

Amid the week’s confluence of closed-door meetings and public pronouncements about how countries and businesses plan to address global warming, supporters of Biden’s efforts intend to send their own message: The United States isn’t abandoning the climate cause, in large part because the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the transition to clean energy. Trump has sent the opposite message, scoffing at the reality of climate change and vowing to shred the Biden administration’s clean-energy agenda, including by “rescind all unspent funds” under the IRA. “There’s a lot of appetite to better understand the possible scenarios out of each election outcome for international climate from countries around the world,” Colón said. “It’s the conversations happening now in capitals around the world, that are about to happen in the U.N. General Assembly, New York Climate Week. Its decisions on climate change in the coming months could shape global progress toward meeting an agreement made at last year’s COP28 in Dubai, where nations set a non-binding pledge to transition away from fossil fuels and prevent temperatures from rising to levels that would threaten billions of people.