Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean

Climate scientists warn the world is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster.

It is hurtling towards permanently exceeding the internationally agreed 1.5C guardrail against catastrophe.

At Baku , as in countries around the world, the politics largely trumped the science.

There is more disappointment over failure to endorse a landmark agreement at last year ’s Cop to “transition away from fossil fuels”.

The US president-elect will not shut down climate negotiations despite his intentions to leave the Paris agreement.

But his stance will make it harder to accelerate action that is needed to avoid disaster.

Everything depends on how the rest of the world responds, both at next year ’s Cop in Brazil and in pursuing other ways of combatting climate crisis.