by David Sherfinski
Thomson Reuters Foundation
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA –
Having dismissed climate change as a con job, U.S. President Donald Trump now faces a key question — COP or no COP?
Representatives of nearly every government in the world are expected at the global COP30 summit, scheduled next month in Brazil’s Amazonian city of Belem, to discuss and share their efforts to curb climate change…
Attending COP30 “just sends the wrong message,” said Steve Milloy of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, one of the groups that organized the letter.
“There’s no point to attending,” he said. “Even when the U.S. played, nothing really happened.”…
But Milloy noted that the U.S. could ignore any final agreement.
“There’s no way the U.N. can come up with an agreement that’s going to bind the U.S.,” he said.
