‘Malpractice to be unprepared’: Climate world girds for Trump 2.0

The Biden administration and like-minded governments around the world are racing to secure their global climate strategy against a potential rollback under Donald Trump .

The push includes leaning on the World Bank to unleash money for clean-energy projects in developing nations in a way that a future Trump administration could not unilaterally reverse.

Climate diplomats and environmentalists have been holding their first early discussions about ways to persuade deep-pocketed investors that green energy is still the wave of the future.

Biden administration officials are racing to finish diplomatic and technical negotiations while fulfilling commitments made in gatherings like last year’s COP28.

The rest of the world is scrambling to protect the climate regime, keep alive conversations that Biden officials have driven.

If the U.S. retrenches, China would be poised for a dominating role over global climate talks.

Climate advocates are pushing for a prime role by cities, states and captains of industry in the resistance.

Few countries attended the meeting in Wuhan , but few ministers showed up, sending career diplomats instead.

Few in the climate movement harbor illusions that Trump can be talked out of leaving the Paris Agreement .

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pitching himself as an intermediary between the former president and advocates of a continued climate effort.