US politics has long shaped global climate action and science – how much will Trump’s opposition matter?

By Hannah Hughes, Senior Lecturer International Politics and Climate Change, Aberystwyth University

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

I have studied the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its global assessments of scientific knowledge for over 15 years and have followed…

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