With President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the United States, international climate diplomacy is at a crossroads — similarly to when in 2017, during Trump’s first term, the United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement on combating climate change.
The former leader’s reelection does not bode well for the future of climate action, given his hostility to these efforts and desire to put his “America first” doctrine above planet-friendly initiatives and investments.
Trump, a climate change skeptic, has called global warming “a big hoax.” He has even mocked those alarmed by the fact that the “ocean will rise” — his words to describe sea level rise — by saying, “who the hell cares?”
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