US climate envoy John Podesta said on Monday, November 11, that Donald Trump’s election victory last week was disappointing to climate advocates, but that work to combat global warming would continue in the United States, Reuters reports.
“For those of us dedicated to climate action, last week’s outcome in the United States is obviously bitterly disappointing,” Podesta said at the COP29 climate summit in Baku.
During the news conference Podesta also spoke about China, saying the country has an obligation to develop a plan to cut emissions that is aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels.
The annual UN climate summit began on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, with many country delegations concerned Trump’s victory in US presidential elections would hinder progress to limit planetary warming.
Trump has promised to again remove the United States, the world’s biggest historic greenhouse gas emitter, from international climate cooperation and maximize the country’s already record-high fossil fuel production.
